Clarify base backups and local pg_wal recycling

Hello,

I would like to suggest a clarification to the PostgreSQL documentation regarding base backups and local WAL recycling.

The documentation explains separately that:

- archived WAL required by a base backup can eventually be deleted once that backup is safely archived
- WAL segments in pg_wal can be recycled or removed after they are no longer needed and, when archiving is enabled, have been successfully archived.

However, I could not find an explicit statement about whether taking or completing a base backup itself affects when WAL segments in the local pg_wal directory become eligible for recycling/removal.

Could the documentation explicitly clarify this relationship? This distinction is easy to miss when reading the base-backup and WAL-archiving sections together.

Thank you.

Best regards,
Tenali