| From: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov(at)google(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Cynthia Shang <cynthia(dot)shang(at)crunchydata(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Rename pg_switch_xlog to pg_switch_wal |
| Date: | 2017-01-29 23:39:21 |
| Message-ID: | CAB7nPqS-XJzvxP19+S3+T3SyBWOTj5PLY=cynOr0yt=MqD0bsQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 12:43 PM, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net> wrote:
> The problem I have with aliases is that they would need to be done across
> the board. At the least, we would need function aliases, symlinks for the
> binaries (which would rneed to be done by the packagers), aliases for the
> command line options, and lots of notations in the documentation.
I was not precise enough here, I am fine with only the function
aliases, because they just have as cost an extra line in pg_proc.h and
because binary-level aliases on Windows are a pain.
> All of this would need to be preserved more or less indefinitely, because if
> we can't decide on a break now it's not likely to happen later.
That's true as well.
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Michael
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