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Re: [PATCH] Rename pg_switch_xlog to pg_switch_wal

David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>

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From: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov@google.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com.br>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com>, Cynthia Shang <cynthia.shang@crunchydata.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-01-26T22:45:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:

> I *personally* don't think it's worth
> changing all this without taking more care about backward compat than
> we're apparently willing to do.  I'm ok with loosing that argument.  I
> just don't think the previous concensus for a narrower change can be
> used for the wider one
> ​.
>

​It would probably help others if you could brain dump a bit as to the
benefit of the status-quo compared to both the 9.6 behavior and the all-in
one.

Honestly, the reference to the camel sticking their nose in a tent was
supposed to be taken humorously, the serious explanation that it meant to
convey was already very well presented by Robert.  The only reason I added
the wiki link was to give those who would have no clue about the metaphor a
chance at understanding it.

I actually took your response as:  "why the f**k is he talking about
camels?" and started laughing...

Dave

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