| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> | 
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> | 
| Cc: | Beena Emerson <memissemerson(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> | 
| Subject: | Re: increasing the default WAL segment size | 
| Date: | 2017-02-16 01:48:49 | 
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoaiTqo7PtftwPGqZLpXShps=krxhrK4L+n_zRByog4zmA@mail.gmail.com | 
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On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 8:46 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Now that we've renamed "xlog" to "wal" in user-facing elements, I think
> we should strive to use the name "wal" internally too in new code, not
> "xlog" anymore.  This patch introduces several variables, macros,
> functions that ought to change names now -- XLogSegmentOffset should be
> WALSegmentOffset for example.  (I expect that as we touch code over
> time, the use of "xlog" will decrease, though not fully disappear).
Ugh.
I think that's going to lead to a complete mess.  We'll end up with
newer and older sections of the code being randomly inconsistent with
each other.
-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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