Re: Use "WAL segment" instead of "log segment" consistently in user-facing messages

From: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Use "WAL segment" instead of "log segment" consistently in user-facing messages
Date: 2022-03-01 01:20:53
Message-ID: 20220301.102053.303657312247115070.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
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At Mon, 28 Feb 2022 21:03:07 +0530, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote in
> Hi,
>
> It looks like we use "log segment" in various user-facing messages.
> The term "log" can mean server logs as well. The "WAL segment" suits
> well here and it is consistently used across the other user-facing
> messages [1].
>
> Here's a small patch attempting to consistently use the "WAL segment".
>
> Thoughts?

I tend to agree to this. I also see "log record(s)" (without prefixed
by "write-ahead") in many places especially in the documentation. I'm
not sure how we should treat "WAL log", though.

regards.

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center

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