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Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog

Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim@gunduz.org>

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From: Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org>
To: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-08-26T12:25:14Z
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Hi,

On Fri, 2016-08-26 at 21:12 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> In short, with the current names, sometimes users think that pg_xlog
> and pg_clog are just logs. And so it is fine to delete them to free up
> space, corrupting their cluster, because they are just *logs*.

...and we also have "pg_logical", that includes a "log" keyword already...

Regards,

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Devrim GÜNDÜZ
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Commits

  1. Rename "pg_clog" directory to "pg_xact".

  2. Improve error reporting in pg_upgrade's file copying/linking/rewriting.