doc: Additional information about timeline ID hexadecimal format

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

Commit: 0b51d423e974557e821d890c0a3a49e419a19caa
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date: 2023-03-20T07:48:46Z
Releases: 16.0
doc: Additional information about timeline ID hexadecimal format

Timeline IDs are sometimes presented to the user in hexadecimal format
(for example in WAL file names).  Add a few bits of information to
clarify this.

Author: Sébastien Lardière <sebastien@lardiere.net>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/8fef346e-2541-76c3-d768-6536ae052993@lardiere.net

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