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Re: [PATCH] Rename pg_switch_xlog to pg_switch_wal

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

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From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Josh Berkus <josh@berkus.org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, 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: 2017-02-10T00:19:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
* Robert Haas (robertmhaas@gmail.com) wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Also, our experience with contrib/tsearch2 suggests that the extension
> > shouldn't be part of contrib, because we have zero track record of getting
> > rid of stuff in contrib, no matter how dead it is.
> 
> Let's nuke tsearch2 to remove this adverse precedent, and then add the
> new thing.
> 
> Anybody who still wants tsearch2 can go get it from an old version, or
> somebody can maintain a fork on github.

Works for me.  I'd love to nuke pg_shadow and all the other
not-really-maintained backwards-compat things from when roles were
added too.

Thanks!

Stephen

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