From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 09:32:49 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: pg_restore: Improve --help synopsis
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pg_restore: Improve --help synopsis

The --help synopsis should only be one line.  This rephrases the first
line a bit to reflect the new functionality of restoring multiple
databases from pg_dumpall output.  Additional explanations are better
kept in the man page.
---

diff --git a/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_restore.c b/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_restore.c
index 2b69ae1f91..f2182e9182 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_restore.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_restore.c
@@ -653,8 +653,7 @@ restore_one_database(const char *inputFileSpec, RestoreOptions *opts,
 static void
 usage(const char *progname)
 {
-	printf(_("%s restores a PostgreSQL database from an archive created by pg_dump or pg_dumpall.\n"
-			 "If the archive is created by pg_dumpall, then restores multiple databases also.\n\n"), progname);
+	printf(_("%s restores PostgreSQL databases from archives created by pg_dump or pg_dumpall.\n\n"), progname);
 	printf(_("Usage:\n"));
 	printf(_("  %s [OPTION]... [FILE]\n"), progname);