Improve wording about WAL files in tar mode of pg_basebackup

mhagander · mhagander · commit ff9e63c7d33a · 2019-01-29T10:44:20.000+01:00
Author: Alex Kliukin
Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier, Magnus Hagander
diff --git 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.
