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accessing the database (readers or writers).
</para>
+ <para>
+ <application>pg_dump</application> only dumps a single database. To backup
+ global objects that are common to all databases in a cluster, such as roles
+ and tablespaces, use <xref linkend="app-pg-dumpall">.
+ </para>
+
<para>
Dumps can be output in script or archive file formats. Script
dumps are plain-text files containing the SQL commands required