"Damian C" <jamianb(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I notice in pgAdminIII when I get it to perform a backup it uses
> pg_dump (of course). I also notice that one of the switches/arguments
> is "-b". When I looked up the PG documentation
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/app-pgdump.html) I
> can't see any reference to "-b".
[ digs in source code... ] It's a synonym for "--blobs", and both the
full switch and the abbreviation are now obsolete because dumping blobs
is now done always. pg_dump still accepts the switch but we don't
document it anymore...
regards, tom lane