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Re: [PATCH] Rename pg_switch_xlog to pg_switch_wal

David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>

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From: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov@google.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com.br>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com>, Cynthia Shang <cynthia.shang@crunchydata.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-01-26T22:18:26Z
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On 1/26/17 5:07 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Robert Haas (robertmhaas@gmail.com) wrote:
>> And I think that's all pretty reasonable.  I don't consider this a
>> done deal yet.  I don't consider your -1 irrelevant.  But I don't
>> think it's fair to present this as if I am somehow running roughshod
>> over community process, either.  If a large crew of people show up to
>> insist that we should rename only the directories and nothing else, I
>> guess I'll have to live with that.  But I think that's a bad decision
>> that will never survive the passage of time, and there seem to be
>> several people who agree with me.
> 
> +1 (to the above, and the rest of Robert's comments on that email).
> 
> For my 2c, I'm also in the crowd of forward or back, but don't leave it
> half-done.  My preference is certainly to move forward with these
> changes, but I understand the process and if there's enough agreement
> that we just shouldn't make these changes, then we really shouldn't make
> any of them.

+1 for forward or back.  I prefer forward but would take back over the
state we're in now.

-- 
-David
david@pgmasters.net

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