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commit    f340977a4fab20f1898d4ac61ae1c36031e109cb
Author:   Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Date:     Mon Mar 16 22:12:14 2020 +0000

    Document pg_ls_*dir hiding of directories and special files
    
    It's strange that a directory-listing function does not list all entries
    in a directory, so let's at least document it.  This involves
    
    pg_ls_logdir
    pg_ls_waldir
    pg_ls_archive_statusdir
    pg_ls_tmpdir
    
    Backpatch as far back as it applies cleanly (and as far as as each
    function exists).  REL_10_STABLE uses different wording, but hopefully
    people are not reading docs so old to write new apps anyway.
    
    Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200305161838.GJ684@telsasoft.com


 doc/src/sgml/func.sgml | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index be586f17a1b..4d43ba0584a 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -21862,6 +21862,7 @@ postgres=# SELECT * FROM pg_walfile_name_offset(pg_stop_backup());
     (mtime) of each file in the log directory. By default, only superusers
     and members of the <literal>pg_monitor</literal> role can use this function.
     Access may be granted to others using <command>GRANT</command>.
+    Filenames beginning with a dot, directories, and other special files are not shown.
    </para>
 
    <indexterm>
@@ -21873,6 +21874,7 @@ postgres=# SELECT * FROM pg_walfile_name_offset(pg_stop_backup());
     default only superusers and members of the <literal>pg_monitor</literal> role
     can use this function. Access may be granted to others using
     <command>GRANT</command>.
+    Filenames beginning with a dot, directories, and other special files are not shown.
    </para>
 
    <indexterm>
@@ -21885,6 +21887,7 @@ postgres=# SELECT * FROM pg_walfile_name_offset(pg_stop_backup());
     superusers and members of the <literal>pg_monitor</literal> role can
     use this function. Access may be granted to others using
     <command>GRANT</command>.
+    Filenames beginning with a dot, directories, and other special files are not shown.
    </para>
 
    <indexterm>
@@ -21898,6 +21901,7 @@ postgres=# SELECT * FROM pg_walfile_name_offset(pg_stop_backup());
     default only superusers and members of the <literal>pg_monitor</literal>
     role can use this function.  Access may be granted to others using
     <command>GRANT</command>.
+    Filenames beginning with a dot, directories, and other special files are not shown.
    </para>
 
    <indexterm>


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