From: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov(at)google(dot)com> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Cynthia Shang <cynthia(dot)shang(at)crunchydata(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Rename pg_switch_xlog to pg_switch_wal |
Date: | 2017-01-31 04:44:23 |
Message-ID: | CAB7nPqRtpxrj3EQ+frokP0h-OPtZZ5_rkBfbkYpSQXeNXi8Jvw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 8:01 PM, Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov(at)google(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:03 PM, Peter Eisentraut
> <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> 1. Rename nothing
>> 2. Rename directory only
>> 3. Rename everything
>
>
> 3 or 1 (with a slight preference for 3).
>
> Not sure if my vote counts, but for me as ex-DBA consistency mattered a lot.
Any voice counts :)
> This is one of the reasons PostgreSQL is actually nicer to work with than
> many other databases. I remember 'wal' vs 'xlog' was actually one of a very
> few confusing things. I think it is important to stick to just one term,
> whether it be wal or xlog. I'd prefer wal since it's a term used in many
> other systems. 'xlog' may be confused with likes of binary log in MySQL
> which is not what it is.
The first time I worked on Postgres, I was not able to do the mapping
between both terms as well.
> Now, I've rebased my patches to rename functions (with and without aliases)
> on top of current master, but there's probably no point of posting them now
> given there are patches above that rename other things as well.
OK, I have moved this patch to CF 2017-03, let's make the discussion
continue with more votes coming in.
--
Michael
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