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From Joe Conway
Subject Re: pgsql: Use the terminology "WAL file" not "log file" more consistently.
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In response to pgsql: Use the terminology "WAL file" not "log file" more consistently.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 9/15/22 05:24, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2022-Sep-15, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
>> Yeah, the lowest-tech solution is to accept either spelling of
>> the description string.  But I'm not very happy with the whole
>> approach right now.  We should have an implementation that isn't
>> dependent on how user-friendly strings are spelled.
> 
> We already discussed this, a mere 12 years ago,
> https://postgr.es/m/1283373680-sup-9235@alvh.no-ip.org
> for exactly the same reason.

Nice!

> Let's just do it?

+1


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