| From: | Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov(at)google(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: | 2017-01-02 17:30:40 |
| Message-ID: | a00f697e-1150-8fec-015b-79e2df07a460@BlueTreble.com |
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On 1/1/17 9:48 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 12/30/16 9:57 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> Additionally, people who are actually using these bits of the system are
>> almost certainly going to have to adjust things for the directory
>> change,
>
> Some *xlog* functions are commonly used to measure replay lag. That
> usage would not be affected by the directory renaming. Renaming those
> functions would only serve to annoy users and have them delay their
> upgrades.
Perhaps we should split the difference and do what we did for XML:
provide a contrib module with alias functions using the old (xlog) names.
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