pg_dump: Improve message formatting

diff --git a/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c b/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c
index 221ae73fc555de7cb40f55cfab866784eba51118..007b0865eb506fc8a8263974c09cc44b7986ac71 100644 (file)
--- a/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c
@@ -675,9 +675,9 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
        if (numWorkers > 1 && fout->remoteVersion < 90200
                && !no_synchronized_snapshots)
                exit_horribly(NULL,
-                         "No synchronized snapshots available in this server version.\n"
-                          "Run with --no-synchronized-snapshots instead if you do not\n"
-                                         "need synchronized snapshots.\n");
+                                         "Synchronized snapshots are not supported by this server version.\n"
+                                         "Run with --no-synchronized-snapshots instead if you do not need\n"
+                                         "synchronized snapshots.\n");
 
        /* Find the last built-in OID, if needed */
        if (fout->remoteVersion < 70300)
@@ -891,7 +891,7 @@ help(const char *progname)
        printf(_("  --exclude-table-data=TABLE   do NOT dump data for the named table(s)\n"));
        printf(_("  --inserts                    dump data as INSERT commands, rather than COPY\n"));
        printf(_("  --no-security-labels         do not dump security label assignments\n"));
-       printf(_("  --no-synchronized-snapshots parallel processes should not use synchronized snapshots\n"));
+       printf(_("  --no-synchronized-snapshots  do not use synchronized snapshots in parallel jobs\n"));
        printf(_("  --no-tablespaces             do not dump tablespace assignments\n"));
        printf(_("  --no-unlogged-table-data     do not dump unlogged table data\n"));
        printf(_("  --quote-all-identifiers      quote all identifiers, even if not key words\n"));