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Re: [PATCH] Rename pg_switch_xlog to pg_switch_wal

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov@google.com>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Cynthia Shang <cynthia.shang@crunchydata.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-01-04T14:55:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> As I said in what you did quote above- I won't complain if someone wants
> the aliases and we include them in the documentation, but I don't agree
> with the other suggestions of having undocumented aliases or not making
> the change.

FWIW, that position makes sense to me as well.  If we keep aliases,
let's just reconcile ourselves to the probability that they'll be there
indefinitely.  It's not that big a deal, and the other proposals are
bigger warts than having an alias.

			regards, tom lane

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