Re: renaming "transaction log"

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: renaming "transaction log"
Date: 2017-05-03 13:57:06
Message-ID: 20170503135706.ottp6tmeftfioft4@alvherre.pgsql
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Most documentation and error messages still uses the term "transaction
> log" to refer to the write-ahead log. Here is a patch to rename that,
> which I think should be done, to match the xlog -> wal renaming in APIs.

+1 for the idea. I suggest grepping for "transaction$" too -- there are
a few cases in SGML that have the phrase "transaction log" split across
lines.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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