Commit 2c65658c authored by Bruce Momjian's avatar Bruce Momjian

Improve wording after wal_files removal.

parent 63653f7f
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<chapter id="wal">
<title>Write-Ahead Logging (<acronym>WAL</acronym>)</title>
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</para>
<para>
The number of 16MB segment files will always be at least
1, and will normally not exceed <varname>CHECKPOINT_SEGMENTS</varname>)
+ 1. This may be used to estimate space requirements for WAL.
Ordinarily, when old log segment files are no longer needed,
There will be at least one 16MB segment file, and will normally
not be more than <varname>CHECKPOINT_SEGMENTS</varname>)
+ 1 files. You can use this to estimate space requirements for
WAL. Ordinarily, when old log segment files are no longer needed,
they are recycled (renamed to become the next sequential future
segments). If, due to a short-term peak of log output rate, there
are more than <varname>CHECKPOINT_SEGMENTS</varname>) + 1 segment files,
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