From 5250d637493627f1ff3587bc73dd598bc1ca3ffc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Justin Pryzby <pryzbyj@telsasoft.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 17:12:04 -0600
Subject: [PATCH v8 3/6] Document historic behavior about hiding directories
 and special files

Should backpatch to v12: tmpdir
---
 doc/src/sgml/func.sgml | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 4c0ea5ab3f..fc4d7f0f78 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -21489,6 +21489,7 @@ 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>
-- 
2.17.0