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Re: [PATCH] Rename pg_switch_xlog to pg_switch_wal

Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>

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From: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
To: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov@google.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com.br>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com>, Cynthia Shang <cynthia.shang@crunchydata.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-01-29T23:39:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 12:43 PM, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> wrote:
> The problem I have with aliases is that they would need to be done across
> the board.  At the least, we would need function aliases, symlinks for the
> binaries (which would rneed to be done by the packagers), aliases for the
> command line options, and lots of notations in the documentation.

I was not precise enough here, I am fine with only the function
aliases, because they just have as cost an extra line in pg_proc.h and
because binary-level aliases on Windows are a pain.

> All of this would need to be preserved more or less indefinitely, because if
> we can't decide on a break now it's not likely to happen later.

That's true as well.
-- 
Michael

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