On 26-08-2016 09:25, Devrim Gündüz wrote:
> 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...
>
"clog" and "xlog" is almost "log"; "logical" is not. I don't imagine
people confusing "logical" meaning "log".
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