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Re: [PATCH] Rename pg_switch_xlog to pg_switch_wal

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@berkus.org>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov@google.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com>, Cynthia Shang <cynthia.shang@crunchydata.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-02-09T21:08:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 2017-02-09 13:03:41 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Counter-argument: moving the directory is going to break many tools
> anyway, so why bother with function aliases?

There's not actually that many tools affected by renaming pg_xlog,
i.e. there are tools that aren't affected by the rename at all, but do
calle *xlog* functions.

Commits

  1. Remove all references to "xlog" from SQL-callable functions in pg_proc.

  2. Replace pg_shadow and pg_group by new role-capable catalogs pg_authid