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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: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Cynthia Shang <cynthia.shang@crunchydata.com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov@google.com>
Date: 2016-12-30T11:42:41Z
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On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 2:59 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> All backwards incompatible changes are judgement calls and people are
> certainly welcome to have different opinions.  I have a pretty strong
> feeling about this particular change being worthwhile and also pretty
> long overdue.

The renaming is definitely worth it to be consistent with the new
pg_wal/. Now as in the case of those functions we have ways a simple
way to avoid useless pain to users we should really take it easy. So
introducing a set of aliases and deprecating them after a couple of
years is a fine plan IMO.
-- 
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