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Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-08-26T02:55:39Z
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On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 11:39:29AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Now, one of the things discussed as well was that we may want to still
> keep pg_xlog, and soft-link to pg_journal or whatever-the-new-name is
> to not break the existing tools. Personally, I'd prefer a hard break.
> That would not be complicated to fix for any tool maintainers.

I agree on a hard break, unless we get pushback from users, and even
then, they can create the symlinks themselves.

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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.