diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml
index 74a967507c..16f4e6c6eb 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml,v 1.9 2001/09/09 23:52:12 petere Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml,v 1.10 2001/09/22 03:59:17 momjian Exp $ -->
 
 <chapter id="wal">
  <title>Write-Ahead Logging (<acronym>WAL</acronym>)</title>
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
    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.