Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Rename pg_switch_xlog to pg_switch_wal - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Rename pg_switch_xlog to pg_switch_wal
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Msg-id CAB7nPqToLxL5UZjgcFG=CDedAMkgRV2L-e56544gQwYo_83dLg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Rename pg_switch_xlog to pg_switch_wal  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 8:06 AM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 1/24/17 4:47 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> I'm not excited about starting to change pg_clog before we finish with
>> xlog -> wal.  Then we just have two half-done things, IMO.  But I'm
>> also not the only one with a commit bit.
>
> I think that depends on which way you slice the overall mission.  You
> appear to think the mission is to have everything named consistently.  I
> thought the mission was to have no directories named *log*.

Those are two different missions. Deciding what to do for the renaming
of pg_xlog does not prevent pg_clog and pg_subtrans to be renamed as
no functions and no binaries use those terms.
-- 
Michael



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