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Mention that pg_dump does not dump ALTER DATABASE ... SET commands; 

backpatch to 8.3.X. Also fix markup that had just one bullet.
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Bruce Momjian 2008-08-21 22:25:44 +00:00
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<!--
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml,v 1.103 2008/07/20 18:43:30 tgl Exp $
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml,v 1.104 2008/08/21 22:25:44 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@ -754,22 +754,13 @@ CREATE DATABASE foo WITH TEMPLATE template0;
</para>
<para>
<application>pg_dump</application> has a few limitations:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
When a data-only dump is chosen and the option
<option>--disable-triggers</> is used,
<application>pg_dump</application> emits commands to disable
triggers on user tables before inserting the data and commands
to re-enable them after the data has been inserted. If the
restore is stopped in the middle, the system catalogs might be
left in the wrong state.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<application>pg_dump</application> has a limitation; when a
data-only dump is chosen and the option <option>--disable-triggers</>
is used, <application>pg_dump</application> emits commands
to disable triggers on user tables before inserting the data
and commands to re-enable them after the data has been
inserted. If the restore is stopped in the middle, the system
catalogs might be left in the wrong state.
</para>
<para>
@ -782,11 +773,14 @@ CREATE DATABASE foo WITH TEMPLATE template0;
</para>
<para>
The dump file produced by <application>pg_dump</application> does
not contain the statistics used by the optimizer to make query
planning decisions. Therefore, it is wise to run
<command>ANALYZE</command> after restoring from a dump file to
ensure good performance.
The dump file produced by <application>pg_dump</application>
does not contain the statistics used by the optimizer to make
query planning decisions. Therefore, it is wise to run
<command>ANALYZE</command> after restoring from a dump file
to ensure good performance. The dump file also does not
contain any <command>ALTER DATABASE ... SET</> commands;
these settings are dumped by <xref linkend="app-pg-dumpall">,
along with database users and other installation-wide settings.
</para>
<para>