Commit 9745b528 authored by Magnus Hagander's avatar Magnus Hagander

Improve wording about WAL files in tar mode of pg_basebackup

Author: Alex Kliukin
Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier, Magnus Hagander
parent 449d0a85
...@@ -306,8 +306,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation ...@@ -306,8 +306,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
backup will fail and be unusable. backup will fail and be unusable.
</para> </para>
<para> <para>
The write-ahead log files will be written to When tar format mode is used, the write-ahead log files will be
the <filename>base.tar</filename> file. written to the <filename>base.tar</filename> file.
</para> </para>
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...@@ -326,9 +326,10 @@ PostgreSQL documentation ...@@ -326,9 +326,10 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
requires no extra write-ahead logs to be saved on the master. requires no extra write-ahead logs to be saved on the master.
</para> </para>
<para> <para>
The write-ahead log files are written to a separate file When tar format mode is used, the write-ahead log files will be
named <filename>pg_wal.tar</filename> (if the server is a version written to a separate file named <filename>pg_wal.tar</filename>
earlier than 10, the file will be named <filename>pg_xlog.tar</filename>). (if the server is a version earlier than 10, the file will be named
<filename>pg_xlog.tar</filename>).
</para> </para>
<para> <para>
This value is the default. This value is the default.
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