Document disabling the statistics collector pg_dump activity, and give a

bit more visibility to the PGOPTIONS environment variable supported by
libpq.

Bryce Nesbitt

doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml

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@@ -726,14 +726,16 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
    <varlistentry>
     <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>
 
+    <term><envar>PGUSER</envar></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Default connection parameters.
      </para>
     </listitem>
+
    </varlistentry>
   </variablelist>
 
@@ -757,6 +759,13 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
    variables used by the <application>libpq</application> front-end
    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 variable, or via <literal>ALTER USER</literal>.
+  </para>
+
+
  </refsect1>
 
 

doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dumpall.sgml

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@@ -445,6 +445,7 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
   <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><envar>PGHOST</envar></term>
+    <term><envar>PGOPTIONS</envar></term>
     <term><envar>PGPORT</envar></term>
     <term><envar>PGUSER</envar></term>
 

doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_restore.sgml

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 <refentry id="APP-PGRESTORE">
  <refmeta>
@@ -559,6 +559,7 @@
   <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><envar>PGHOST</envar></term>
+    <term><envar>PGOPTIONS</envar></term>
     <term><envar>PGPORT</envar></term>
     <term><envar>PGUSER</envar></term>