Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Devrim Gündüz
Subject Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog
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Msg-id 1472214314.12318.13.camel@gunduz.org
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In response to Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog  (Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com.br>)
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Hi,

On Fri, 2016-08-26 at 21:12 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> In short, with the current names, sometimes users think that pg_xlog
> and pg_clog are just logs. And so it is fine to delete them to free up
> space, corrupting their cluster, because they are just *logs*.

...and we also have "pg_logical", that includes a "log" keyword already...

Regards,

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