Re: renaming "transaction log"

On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 10:33:32AM -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 10:57:06AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > Most documentation and error messages still uses the term "transaction
> > > log" to refer to the write-ahead log. Here is a patch to rename that,
> > > which I think should be done, to match the xlog -> wal renaming in APIs.
> >
> > +1 for the idea. I suggest grepping for "transaction$" too -- there are
> > a few cases in SGML that have the phrase "transaction log" split across
> > lines.
>
> In general, you can use ag a.k.a. "The Silver Searcher" for phrase
> searches as follows:
>
> ag $(echo "the phrase to be searched" | sed -e 's/ /\\s/g')

Oops. That should read:

ag $(echo "the phrase to be searched" | sed -e 's/ /\\s+/g')

Best,
David.
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