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

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog
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Msg-id 20160826042302.GJ4028@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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* Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us) wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 11:39:29AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> > Now, one of the things discussed as well was that we may want to still
> > keep pg_xlog, and soft-link to pg_journal or whatever-the-new-name is
> > to not break the existing tools. Personally, I'd prefer a hard break.
> > That would not be complicated to fix for any tool maintainers.
>
> I agree on a hard break, unless we get pushback from users, and even
> then, they can create the symlinks themselves.

I'm in favor of the hard break generally, but I'd like David's input on
it, to be sure we're not missing something.

Thanks!

Stephen

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