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Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog

David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>

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From: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-08-29T16:07:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 8/29/16 11:35 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2016-08-29 11:18:38 -0400, David Steele wrote:
>> pg_logical -> pg_replgcl
> 
> That seems considerably worse.

Fair enough.  I was just trying to throw something out there to get rid
of the "log" in logical.

>> pg_replslot -> pg_tmp/pg_repslot
> 
> That's most certainly not ephemeral. Just because something isn't
> generally appropriate on a standby, doesn't, by far, mean it's ephemeral.

Yes, ephemeral was a poor choice of words.  I really meant "can be
excluded from backups".

-- 
-David
david@pgmasters.net

Commits

  1. Rename "pg_clog" directory to "pg_xact".

  2. Improve error reporting in pg_upgrade's file copying/linking/rewriting.