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authorPeter Eisentraut2012-05-22 21:29:20 +0000
committerPeter Eisentraut2012-05-22 22:06:33 +0000
commit92a953fbf8c90c3b316fbc275767efb6994f1589 (patch)
treecb3668a9f5bca51241b783fb610ea78f4ec2643f
parent0013a665b75a62f6110bff99273b1015b4aa60fe (diff)
Add small example about pg_archivecleanup -x option
Every time I read this I had doubts about whether the argument to the -x option should include the dot (yes). A small example should clarify this.
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/pgarchivecleanup.sgml7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/pgarchivecleanup.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/pgarchivecleanup.sgml
index c6b5d7ad27..44e8bbdfc2 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/pgarchivecleanup.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/pgarchivecleanup.sgml
@@ -114,7 +114,12 @@ pg_archivecleanup: removing file "archive/00000001000000370000000E"
that will be stripped from all file names before deciding if they
should be deleted. This is typically useful for cleaning up archives
that have been compressed during storage, and therefore have had an
- extension added by the compression program. Note that the
+ extension added by the compression program. For example: <literal>-x
+ .gz</literal>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Note that the
<filename>.backup</> file name passed to the program should not
include the extension.
</para>