From 9745b528f7cb03be3afad0f91a634072c13ea91f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Magnus Hagander 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 57dc83b620b..c4f3950e5bc 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml @@ -306,8 +306,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation backup will fail and be unusable. - The write-ahead log files will be written to - the base.tar file. + When tar format mode is used, the write-ahead log files will be + written to the base.tar file. @@ -326,9 +326,10 @@ PostgreSQL documentation requires no extra write-ahead logs to be saved on the master. - The write-ahead log files are written to a separate file - named pg_wal.tar (if the server is a version - earlier than 10, the file will be named pg_xlog.tar). + When tar format mode is used, the write-ahead log files will be + written to a separate file named pg_wal.tar + (if the server is a version earlier than 10, the file will be named + pg_xlog.tar). This value is the default.