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Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

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From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>, Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@2ndquadrant.com>, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Date: 2016-10-14T14:06:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
* Christoph Berg (myon@debian.org) wrote:
> Re: Stephen Frost 2016-10-14 <20161014113523.GZ13284@tamriel.snowman.net>
> > > I think it would help if we moved it to something like
> > > "internal/pg_xlog" and "internal/pg_clog".  Keep the name but move it
> > > out of sight.
> > 
> > I disagree that this will materially help with the issue.
> 
> And internal/base and internal/global and internal/pg_... because
> these shouldn't be touched by the users either.
> 
> I don't think this would lead anywhere.

It'd probably be easier to move the things that are *not* PG internal
(eg: config files, et al) *out* of the data directory and into somewhere
sensible, like /etc ...

Oh, wait ...

Thanks!

Stephen

Commits

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

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