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

From Vladimir Rusinov
Subject Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Rename pg_switch_xlog to pg_switch_wal
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Msg-id CAE1wr-wu3rSzgyybZLgXU6AGQvKbZUv-budKBvHqgBCf2G9vFw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Rename pg_switch_xlog to pg_switch_wal  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 8:15 PM, Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov@google.com> wrote:
> On the topic of binaries, there's going to be another patch renaming them.
> Those will have no aliases as it's trivial to work-around (symlinks, shell
> scripts, etc) and not so trivial to implement in a portable way.

On Windows that would be a pain... So let's not use symlinks for binaries.

Just to be clear, I'm not proposing that we use symlinks. Just pointing out that workarounds are trivial for the end users.

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Vladimir Rusinov
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