Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Craig Ringer <craig(dot)ringer(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Subject: Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog
Date: 2016-10-14 14:06:30
Message-ID: 20161014140630.GB13284@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Christoph Berg (myon(at)debian(dot)org) wrote:
> Re: Stephen Frost 2016-10-14 <20161014113523(dot)GZ13284(at)tamriel(dot)snowman(dot)net>
> > > I think it would help if we moved it to something like
> > > "internal/pg_xlog" and "internal/pg_clog". Keep the name but move it
> > > out of sight.
> >
> > I disagree that this will materially help with the issue.
>
> And internal/base and internal/global and internal/pg_... because
> these shouldn't be touched by the users either.
>
> I don't think this would lead anywhere.

It'd probably be easier to move the things that are *not* PG internal
(eg: config files, et al) *out* of the data directory and into somewhere
sensible, like /etc ...

Oh, wait ...

Thanks!

Stephen

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