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Re: [PATCH] Rename pg_switch_xlog to pg_switch_wal

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov@google.com>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Cynthia Shang <cynthia.shang@crunchydata.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-01-04T08:25:09Z
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On 4 January 2017 at 07:32, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:

> I think we've been far to cavalier lately about unnecessarily breaking
> admin and monitoring tools.

> Just renaming well known functions for a minor bit of
> cleanliness seems not to survive a cost/benefit analysis.

+1

This thread is at best a minor cleanup item, yet major work still
remains for 10.0.

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Simon Riggs                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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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