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<chapter id="wal">
<title>Write-Ahead Logging (<acronym>WAL</acronym>)</title>
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.