Re: [PATCH] Rename pg_switch_xlog to pg_switch_wal

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> But I don't see any proposals to actually change all uses of "xlog" to
>> "wal".  What about program names, command line options, etc.?  If the
>> argument is, we changed one thing, we should change the rest, then let's
>> see that.  I think that argument itself is flawed, but if that's what
>> we're going with, let's see the whole plan.
>
> I'm happy to go change every last bit of it.  I was expecting after I
> committed the initial rename that somebody would provide a follow-on
> patch to do the rest of it in short order.  Instead, months went by
> and we still don't have a complete patch.  But I don't see why that
> has to take more than a day's work, probably just a few hours.  I'd
> like to do that and move on.

And here are patches for that.

0001 renames everything that contains "xlog" in pg_proc.h to refer to "wal".

0002 renames programs whose names contains "xlog".

0003 renames the dtrace probes whose names contain "xlog".

0004 renames command line options which contain "xlog".

There are probably a few more things that could be done afterwards to
clean up other odds and ends, but I think this gets the vast bulk of
the user-visible references to xlog.

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Robert Haas
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