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Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog

Jim Nasby <jim.nasby@bluetreble.com>

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From: Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>, Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Date: 2016-10-14T16:10:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 10/14/16 9:06 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> > And internal/base and internal/global and internal/pg_... because
>> > these shouldn't be touched by the users either.
>> >
>> > I don't think this would lead anywhere.
> It'd probably be easier to move the things that are *not* PG internal
> (eg: config files, et al) *out* of the data directory and into somewhere
> sensible, like /etc ...

I do think it would be an improvement to segregate things users are 
expected to touch (*.conf and pg_log are what come to mind) from 
everything else, which could easily be done by moving everything else to 
an internal/ directory. I agree that's not much of an improvement for 
pg_[cx]log, but we could create internal/ as well as rename some things.
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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.