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L.3. pg_receivexlog renamed to pg_receivewal

PostgreSQL 9.6 and below provided a command named pg_receivexlog to fetch write-ahead-log (WAL) files. This command was renamed to pg_receivewal, see pg_receivewal for documentation of pg_receivewal and see the release notes for PostgreSQL 10 for details on this change.

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