| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | 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>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, 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: | 2017-01-17 22:10:47 |
| Message-ID: | 20170117221047.GL18360@tamriel.snowman.net |
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* Robert Haas (robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> I'm OK with continuing to use "xlog" as the user-facing name for the
> write-ahead log, and I am OK with switching to wal. But leaving
> things in the halfway in-between state where they are right now seems
> like a mess. It conveniences the people who happen to care about the
> names of the parts we haven't renamed yet but not the part we already
> did rename at the price of a permanent inconsistency in naming
> conventions that can't ever eliminate. Yuck.
I'm more of a '-1' when it comes to keeping everything called "xlog",
and a '+1' on renaming everything to be WAL, since that's what we
usually refer to this thing as, but I agree with Robert that only doing
a half-way renaming is about a -1000.
Thanks!
Stephen
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