On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 15:34 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I propose slimming down the pg_dump README, keeping intact the
>> > introductory notes and details of the tar format.
>>
>> Do we need to keep it at all, really? Certainly the introductory part
>> is covered in the main documentation already...
>
> I'd remove it and distribute the remaining information, if any, between
> the source code and the man page.
Here's a patch to do so. After removing the discussed bogus
information, there were only two notes which I still found relevant,
so I stuck those in the appropriate header comments.
I didn't preserve the comment about "blank username & group" for
tar'ed files, since there are already some comments along these lines
in tarCreateHeader(), and these are "postgres" not "blank" nowadays.
The pg_dump/pg_restore man pages seemed to already do a good enough
job of showing usage examples that I didn't find anything worth adding
there.
Josh