Commit 18b98505 authored by Bruce Momjian's avatar Bruce Momjian

Clarify name of file to be checked for PITR expiring.

parent 1a6ad669
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<chapter id="backup">
<title>Backup and Restore</title>
......@@ -733,8 +733,8 @@ SELECT pg_stop_backup();
the backup history file will be named something like
<literal>0000000100001234000055CD.007C9330.backup</>. (The second part of
this file name stands for an exact position within the WAL file, and can
ordinarily be ignored.) Once you have safely archived the backup dump
file, you can delete all archived WAL segments with names numerically
ordinarily be ignored.) Once you have safely archived this WAL
segment file, you can delete all archived WAL segments with names numerically
preceding this one. The backup history file is just a small text file.
It contains the label string you gave to <function>pg_start_backup</>, as
well as the starting and ending times of the backup. If you used the
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