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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml index c78f71d9a7a..7c28bd2876d 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml @@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ PostgreSQL documentation </para> <para> + <application>pg_dump</application> only dumps a single database. To backup + global objects that are common to all databases in a cluster, such as roles + and tablespaces, use <xref linkend="app-pg-dumpall">. + </para> + + <para> Dumps can be output in script or archive file formats. Script dumps are plain-text files containing the SQL commands required to reconstruct the database to the state it was in at the time it was |