Re: xlog file naming

On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 12:01 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > Are there any TODO items here?
>
> It's possible there's something we want to change here, but it's far
> from obvious what that thing is. Our WAL file handling is
> ridiculously hard to understand, but the problem with changing it is
> that there will then be two things people have to understand, and a
> lot of tools that have to be revamped. It isn't clear that it's worth
> going through that kind of pain for a minor improvement in clarity.

The idea was that since we already broke some tools, possibly silently
(...FF files that they previously skipped), a more radical renaming
might break those tools more obviously, and make some other things
simpler/easier down the road.