Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog
Date: 2016-08-26 04:23:02
Message-ID: 20160826042302.GJ4028@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Bruce Momjian (bruce(at)momjian(dot)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'm in favor of the hard break generally, but I'd like David's input on
it, to be sure we're not missing something.

Thanks!

Stephen

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