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Re: [PATCH] Rename pg_switch_xlog to pg_switch_wal

Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov@google.com>

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From: Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov@google.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com.br>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com>, Cynthia Shang <cynthia.shang@crunchydata.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-01-18T15:09:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 8:15 PM, Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov@google.com>
> wrote:
> > On the topic of binaries, there's going to be another patch renaming
> them.
> > Those will have no aliases as it's trivial to work-around (symlinks,
> shell
> > scripts, etc) and not so trivial to implement in a portable way.
>
> On Windows that would be a pain... So let's not use symlinks for binaries.


Just to be clear, I'm not proposing that we use symlinks. Just pointing out
that workarounds are trivial for the end users.

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Vladimir Rusinov
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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