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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: Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com.br>
Cc: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, 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: 2017-01-12T18:04:15Z
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com.br> wrote:

> As Robert suggested in the other email: extension to create old names.


I don't follow the reasoning for the extension. It seem to have downsides
of both alternatives combined: we still break people's code, and we add
even more maintenance burden than just keeping aliases.

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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