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Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog

Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>

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From: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-08-26T03:58:14Z
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On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 11:39:29AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> Now, one of the things discussed as well was that we may want to still
>> keep pg_xlog, and soft-link to pg_journal or whatever-the-new-name is
>> to not break the existing tools. Personally, I'd prefer a hard break.
>> That would not be complicated to fix for any tool maintainers.
>
> I agree on a hard break, unless we get pushback from users, and even
> then, they can create the symlinks themselves.

I strongly prefer symlink approach not to break many existing tools
and scripts.

Regards,

-- 
Fujii Masao

Commits

  1. Rename "pg_clog" directory to "pg_xact".

  2. Improve error reporting in pg_upgrade's file copying/linking/rewriting.