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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">