Hi Laurenz, Regarding the first point, I can't believe I missed it. Sorry for wasting your time and thanks for pointing it out.
Regarding the second point, if you are using the -F d switch, you may not necessarily look at the -f switch, which is what happened to me at first. Would it not be more explicit if under the -F d switch it said something like, you need to use -f switch in order to specify the directory to be used. Thanks! Daniel. On Thu, 30 Jan 2020, 8:41 pm Laurenz Albe, <laurenz.a...@cybertec.at> wrote: > On Thu, 2020-01-30 at 01:26 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote: > > I'm not certain but I think that on the page: > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/app-pgdump.html, it should mention > that > > to use the -j (jobs) switch, you can only use -F d (format directory.) > > Also, when using -F d, you need to use the -f (file) switch as well to > > specify the directory name. I didn't find that to be clear. > > > > e.g.: pg_dump -j 5 -Fd -f "c:\pg backup" test_db > > It says right there: > > At the -j option: > > "You can only use this option with the directory output format because > this is the only > output format where multiple processes can write their data at the same > time." > > At the -f option: > > "This parameter can be omitted for 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. > > Yours, > Laurenz Albe > -- > Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com > >
