Simon Riggs wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 11:15 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > > Fujii Masao wrote:
> > >> Only a part of backup
> > >> history file (the file name including stop wal location) is changed.
> > >> Currently, the file name is wrong if stop wal location indicates a 
> > >> boundary
> > >> byte. This would confuse the user, I think.
> > 
> > > Should we change it in HEAD? I'm leaning towards no, on the grounds that 
> > > tools/people would then have to know the version it's dealing with to 
> > > interpret the value correctly, and because pg_stop_backup() now waits 
> > > for the last xlog file to be archived before returning, there's little 
> > > need to look at that file.
> > 
> > I agree.  It might have been better to define it the other way
> > originally, but the risks of changing it now outweigh any likely
> > benefit.
> 
> Agreed. It's too confusing the other way.
> 
> The manual entry wasn't changed from my original submission
> unfortunately.

OK, do you have updated wording?

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