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Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-08-26T21:06:45Z
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On 8/26/16 11:58 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> $PGDATA/etc
>> $PGDATA/log
>> $PGDATA/run (lock files etc.)
>> $PGDATA/tmp
>> $PGDATA/var
>>
>> The names of all the things under "var" could still be refined, but it's
>> much less likely that users will confuse data with configuration or
>> plain logs under that scheme
> 
> Interesting idea. I worry a bit that this might encourage distributions
> to split it up into different places though, and I'm not sure we want to
> encourage that..

They already do this.  This would just formalize where we think
appropriate boundaries between the pieces are.

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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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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.