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Re: [PATCH] Rename pg_switch_xlog to pg_switch_wal

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: 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>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com>, Cynthia Shang <cynthia.shang@crunchydata.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-01-27T23:06:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 1/24/17 4:47 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> I'm not excited about starting to change pg_clog before we finish with
> xlog -> wal.  Then we just have two half-done things, IMO.  But I'm
> also not the only one with a commit bit.

I think that depends on which way you slice the overall mission.  You
appear to think the mission is to have everything named consistently.  I
thought the mission was to have no directories named *log*.

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Peter Eisentraut              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