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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>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
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>, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com>, Cynthia Shang <cynthia.shang@crunchydata.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-01-27T23:03:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 1/26/17 2:05 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> I do not think it can be right to rename the directory and not
> anything else.

I think this is the root of the confusion.

A lot of people apparently consented to renaming pg_xlog with the
understanding that that's it, whereas other people understood it as
consensus for renaming everything.

You really have (at least) three options here:

1. Rename nothing
2. Rename directory only
3. Rename everything

and you need to count the votes of each pair separately.

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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