diff options
| author | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> | 2002-09-06 21:58:36 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> | 2002-09-06 21:58:36 +0000 |
| commit | 38e444aae695d5c31ecd3038ee6e516bdd2a3af9 (patch) | |
| tree | 089e99fb58088059ad0937c2f16a102984c2e3f4 /doc/src | |
| parent | 172f9a49e0549bbbd4d55b2deceff9a3d3e8192f (diff) | |
| download | postgresql-38e444aae695d5c31ecd3038ee6e516bdd2a3af9.tar.gz postgresql-38e444aae695d5c31ecd3038ee6e516bdd2a3af9.zip | |
Make sure the pg_dump tar archiver can handle members larger than 2 GB, but
does not create members larger than allowed by the tar format. Also, fix
the generation of the tar header to conform to POSIX.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml index fbfdcb3c2a4..5b5759a1d43 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- -$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml,v 1.49 2002/08/27 18:57:26 petere Exp $ +$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml,v 1.50 2002/09/06 21:58:36 petere Exp $ PostgreSQL documentation --> @@ -662,6 +662,15 @@ CREATE DATABASE foo WITH TEMPLATE = template0; </itemizedlist> </para> + + <para> + Members of tar archives are limited to a size less than 8 GB. + (This is an inherent limitation of the tar file format.) Therefore + this format cannot be used if the textual representation of a table + exceeds that size. The total size of a tar archive and any of the + other output formats is not limited, except possibly by the + operating system. + </para> </refsect1> <refsect1 id="pg-dump-examples"> |