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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: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, 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>, 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: 2017-02-10T00:37:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 2017-02-09 19:19:21 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * 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.

+1


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

Not sure if it's worth the work to rip out and such, but I'm mildly
supportive of this one too.  Depends a bit on what all the other things
are ;)

Andres

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