The WAL writer is an auxiliary process, but its description in the
glossary did not match that.
This is inexact since
d3014fff4cd4.
Author: Masahiro Ikeda
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
d3a5a4278fd8d9e7a47c6aa4db9e9a39@oss.nttdata.com
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<glossterm>WAL writer (process)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
- A process that writes <glossterm linkend="glossary-wal-record">WAL records</glossterm>
+ An <glossterm linkend="glossary-auxiliary-proc">auxiliary process</glossterm>
+ that writes <glossterm linkend="glossary-wal-record">WAL records</glossterm>
from <glossterm linkend="glossary-shared-memory">shared memory</glossterm> to
<glossterm linkend="glossary-wal-file">WAL files</glossterm>.
</para>