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Re: [PATCH] Rename pg_switch_xlog to pg_switch_wal

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

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Cc: Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov@google.com>, Cynthia Shang <cynthia.shang@crunchydata.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-01-01T15:48:02Z
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On 12/30/16 9:57 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Additionally, people who are actually using these bits of the system are
> almost certainly going to have to adjust things for the directory
> change,

Some *xlog* functions are commonly used to measure replay lag.  That
usage would not be affected by the directory renaming.  Renaming those
functions would only serve to annoy users and have them delay their
upgrades.

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