Hello,
I would like to suggest a clarification to the PostgreSQL documentation regarding base backups and local WAL recycling. The documentation explains separately that: - archived WAL required by a base backup can eventually be deleted once that backup is safely archived - WAL segments in pg_wal can be recycled or removed after they are no longer needed and, when archiving is enabled, have been successfully archived. However, I could not find an explicit statement about whether taking or completing a base backup itself affects when WAL segments in the local pg_wal directory become eligible for recycling/removal. Could the documentation explicitly clarify this relationship? This distinction is easy to miss when reading the base-backup and WAL-archiving sections together. Thank you. Best regards, Tenali
