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pg_xlogdump: document --path behavior

The previous --path documentation and --help output were wrong in both
its meaning and the defaults.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier

Backpatch-through: 9.6
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Bruce Momjian
2017-01-10 22:38:14 -05:00
parent abfd0095c1
commit 73f8d73313
2 changed files with 9 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -117,9 +117,12 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
<term><option>--path=<replaceable>path</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Directory in which to find log segment files. The default is to search
for them in the <literal>pg_wal</literal> subdirectory of the current
directory.
Specifies a directory to search for log segment files or a
directory with a <literal>pg_wal</literal> subdirectory that
contains such files. The default is to search in the current
directory, the <literal>pg_wal</literal> subdirectory of the
current directory, and the <literal>pg_wal</literal> subdirectory
of <envar>PGDATA</envar>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>