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</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--lock-wait-timeout=<replaceable class="parameter">timeout</replaceable></option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Do not wait forever to acquire shared table locks at the beginning of
+ the dump. Instead fail if unable to lock a table within the specified
+ <replaceable class="parameter">timeout</>. The timeout may be
+ specified in any of the formats accepted by <command>SET
+ statement_timeout</>. (Allowed values vary depending on the server
+ version you are dumping from, but an integer number of milliseconds
+ is accepted by all versions since 7.3. This option is ignored when
+ dumping from a pre-7.3 server.)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--no-tablespaces</option></term>
<listitem>
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
*
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall.c,v 1.105 2008/06/26 01:35:45 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall.c,v 1.106 2008/08/29 17:28:43 alvherre Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
{"disable-triggers", no_argument, &disable_triggers, 1},
{"no-tablespaces", no_argument, &no_tablespaces, 1},
{"use-set-session-authorization", no_argument, &use_setsessauth, 1},
+ {"lock-wait-timeout", required_argument, NULL, 2},
{NULL, 0, NULL, 0}
};
case 0:
break;
+ case 2:
+ appendPQExpBuffer(pgdumpopts, " --lock-wait-timeout=");
+ appendPQExpBuffer(pgdumpopts, optarg);
+ break;
+
default:
fprintf(stderr, _("Try \"%s --help\" for more information.\n"), progname);
exit(1);
printf(_(" -f, --file=FILENAME output file name\n"));
printf(_(" --help show this help, then exit\n"));
printf(_(" --version output version information, then exit\n"));
+ printf(_(" --lock-wait-timeout=TIMEOUT\n"
+ " fail after waiting TIMEOUT for a table lock\n"));
printf(_("\nOptions controlling the output content:\n"));
printf(_(" -a, --data-only dump only the data, not the schema\n"));
printf(_(" -c, --clean clean (drop) databases prior to create\n"));