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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2023-11-25 10:48:18 -0500
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2023-11-25 10:48:18 -0500
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C comment: clarify that WAL files can be _recycled_ or removed
Reported-by: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB7nPqSDdF0heotQU3gsepgqx+9c+6KjLd3R6aNYH7KKfDd2ig@mail.gmail.com Author: Michael Paquier Backpatch-through: master
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-rw-r--r--src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
index 1159dff1a69..ef9b8e4fb96 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
@@ -3692,7 +3692,8 @@ RemoveOldXlogFiles(XLogSegNo segno, XLogRecPtr lastredoptr, XLogRecPtr endptr,
}
/*
- * Remove WAL files that are not part of the given timeline's history.
+ * Recycle or remove WAL files that are not part of the given timeline's
+ * history.
*
* This is called during recovery, whenever we switch to follow a new
* timeline, and at the end of recovery when we create a new timeline. We