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doc: Fix incorrect wording for --file in pg_dump

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The documentation stated that the directory specified by --file
must not exist, but pg_dump does allow for empty directories to
be specified and used.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/534AA60D-CF6B-432F-9882-E9737B33D1B7@gmail.com
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Daniel Gustafsson
2025-11-07 15:10:50 +01:00
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@@ -297,8 +297,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
file based output formats, in which case the standard output is used.
It must be given for the directory output format however, where it
specifies the target directory instead of a file. In this case the
directory is created by <command>pg_dump</command> and must not exist
before.
directory is created by <command>pg_dump</command> unless the directory
exist and is empty.
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