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Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-08-26T20:18:22Z
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On 26 August 2016 at 18:28, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Also, I'd just as soon not move/rename things that don't really need it.

+1

Let's leave everything exactly as it is now... but put a small README
in each directory to explain why files in it shouldn't be deleted to
make space.

That helps the few people who made such mistakes, but doesn't cause
massive change as a result.

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

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

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