Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog

From: Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog
Date: 2016-08-26 12:25:14
Message-ID: 1472214314.12318.13.camel@gunduz.org
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Hi,

On Fri, 2016-08-26 at 21:12 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> In short, with the current names, sometimes users think that pg_xlog
> and pg_clog are just logs. And so it is fine to delete them to free up
> space, corrupting their cluster, because they are just *logs*.

...and we also have "pg_logical", that includes a "log" keyword already...

Regards,

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Devrim GÜNDÜZ
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PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
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