| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, 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: | 2016-10-20 19:46:20 |
| Message-ID: | 6184.1476992780@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> * David Fetter (david(at)fetter(dot)org) wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 02:23:32PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I don't see one single one of those subdirectory names that I'd call
>>> self-documenting.
>> That's a problem we should do something about, even if we can't do it
>> by renaming these all in one go. At the very least, we can do this
>> for any new names.
> I disagree that excessivly long names for files or directories are
> useful and should be fully self-documenting.
I'm mostly with Stephen on this. As the names stand, they encourage
people to go look at the documentation,
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/storage-file-layout.html
which will provide more information than you'd ever get out of any
reasonable directory name.
Having said that, I still don't like "pg_logical", but I suppose
renaming it would have more downsides than upsides.
regards, tom lane
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