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

From Fujii Masao
Subject Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog
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Msg-id CAHGQGwHK2yimfLvG_WQ1Vrq2h+CMzgv5u6OEmxr-cbJRO+WKWQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog  (Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>)
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On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 11:55 AM, 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 strongly prefer symlink approach not to break many existing tools
and scripts.

Regards,

-- 
Fujii Masao



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