From ff9e63c7d33a92503895b3c8acc8d96cb8116220 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:42:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Improve wording about WAL files in tar mode of pg_basebackup
Author: Alex Kliukin
Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier, Magnus Hagander
---
doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml | 11 ++++++-----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml
index c9f6ce4bb33..bc7f02b8e5f 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml
@@ -305,8 +305,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
backup will fail and be unusable.
</para>
<para>
- The write-ahead log files will be written to
- the <filename>base.tar</filename> file.
+ When tar format mode is used, the write-ahead log files will be
+ written to the <filename>base.tar</filename> file.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -325,9 +325,10 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
requires no extra write-ahead logs to be saved on the master.
</para>
<para>
- The write-ahead log files are written to a separate file
- named <filename>pg_wal.tar</filename> (if the server is a version
- earlier than 10, the file will be named <filename>pg_xlog.tar</filename>).
+ When tar format mode is used, the write-ahead log files will be
+ written to a separate file named <filename>pg_wal.tar</filename>
+ (if the server is a version earlier than 10, the file will be named
+ <filename>pg_xlog.tar</filename>).
</para>
<para>
This value is the default.
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