From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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To: | Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com> |
Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog |
Date: | 2016-08-29 07:04:39 |
Message-ID: | CABUevEw-FxyE+ruXjrboLmc-guU_hCLiqehn=c1aPA6eF5+wag@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 2:45 AM, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com> wrote:
> On 8/26/16 4:08 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
>
>> Splitting of ephemeral data seems to have a benefit, the rest seems more
>> like rather noisy busywork to me.
>>
>
> People accidentally blowing away pg_clog or pg_xlog is a pretty common
> occurrence, and I don't think there's all that many tools that reference
> them. I think it's well worth renaming them.
>
Pretty sure every single backup tool or script out there is referencing
pg_xlog. If it's not, then it's broken...
pg_clog is a different story of course.
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Magnus Hagander
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