This is a proposed patch to document disabling the statistics collector pg_dump activity, and give a bit more visibility to the PGOPTIONS environment variable supported by libpq.

It is an alternative to the prior patch, which supplied a --no-stats flag.

This is a documentation only patch, not tied to a recent code change.
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Index: ref/pg_dump.sgml
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RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.106
diff -c -2 -r1.106 pg_dump.sgml
*** ref/pg_dump.sgml	5 Jan 2009 16:54:36 -0000	1.106
--- ref/pg_dump.sgml	21 Jan 2009 01:15:41 -0000
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*** 727,733 ****
      <term><envar>PGDATABASE</envar></term>
      <term><envar>PGHOST</envar></term>
      <term><envar>PGPORT</envar></term>
-     <term><envar>PGUSER</envar></term>
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
--- 727,734 ----
      <term><envar>PGDATABASE</envar></term>
      <term><envar>PGHOST</envar></term>
+     <term><envar>PGOPTIONS</envar></term>
      <term><envar>PGPORT</envar></term>
  
+     <term><envar>PGUSER</envar></term>
      <listitem>
       <para>
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*** 735,738 ****
--- 736,740 ----
       </para>
      </listitem>
+ 
     </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
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*** 758,761 ****
--- 760,770 ----
     library will apply.
    </para>
+   <para>
+    The database activity of <application>pg_dump</application> is normally collected by the statistics collector.
+    If this is undesirable, you can set parameters <literal>stats_block_level</literal> and <literal>stats_row_level</literal> to false
+    via the <application>libpq</> <envar>PGOPTIONS</envar> environment varriable, or via <literal>ALTER USER</literal>.
+   </para>
+ 
+ 
   </refsect1>
  
Index: ref/pg_dumpall.sgml
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RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dumpall.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.74
diff -c -2 -r1.74 pg_dumpall.sgml
*** ref/pg_dumpall.sgml	5 Jan 2009 16:54:36 -0000	1.74
--- ref/pg_dumpall.sgml	21 Jan 2009 01:15:41 -0000
***************
*** 446,449 ****
--- 446,450 ----
     <varlistentry>
      <term><envar>PGHOST</envar></term>
+     <term><envar>PGOPTIONS</envar></term>
      <term><envar>PGPORT</envar></term>
      <term><envar>PGUSER</envar></term>
Index: ref/pg_restore.sgml
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RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_restore.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.77
diff -c -2 -r1.77 pg_restore.sgml
*** ref/pg_restore.sgml	5 Jan 2009 16:54:36 -0000	1.77
--- ref/pg_restore.sgml	21 Jan 2009 01:15:41 -0000
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*** 538,541 ****
--- 538,542 ----
     <varlistentry>
      <term><envar>PGHOST</envar></term>
+     <term><envar>PGOPTIONS</envar></term>
      <term><envar>PGPORT</envar></term>
      <term><envar>PGUSER</envar></term>
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