WAL file numbers: Sequenatial -> ever-increasing

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Bruce Momjian 2001-09-22 03:59:17 +00:00
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<chapter id="wal">
<title>Write-Ahead Logging (<acronym>WAL</acronym>)</title>
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divided into 8 kB pages. The log record headers are described in
<filename>access/xlog.h</filename>; record content is dependent on
the type of event that is being logged. Segment files are given
sequential numbers as names, starting at
ever-increasing numbers as names, starting at
<filename>0000000000000000</filename>. The numbers do not wrap, at
present, but it should take a very long time to exhaust the
available stock of numbers.