From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:03:36 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fix pg_dump docs to acknowledge that you can use -Z with plain text output.  Pointed... 
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Fix pg_dump docs to acknowledge that you can use -Z with plain text output.  Pointed out by Daniel Migowski.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
index ef706b61e5..28e0307652 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
@@ -497,9 +497,14 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
       <term><option>--compress=<replaceable class="parameter">0..9</replaceable></option></term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-        Specify the compression level to use in archive formats that
-        support compression.  (Currently only the custom archive
-        format supports compression.)
+        Specify the compression level to use.  Zero means no compression.
+        For the custom archive format, this specifies compression of
+        individual table-data segments, and the default is to compress
+        at a moderate level.
+        For plain text output, setting a nonzero compression level causes
+        the entire output file to be compressed, as though it had been
+        fed through <application>gzip</>; but the default is not to compress.
+        The tar archive format currently does not support compression at all.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>