Re: renaming "transaction log"

On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 10:57:06AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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.

In general, you can use ag a.k.a. "The Silver Searcher" for phrase
searches as follows:

ag $(echo "the phrase to be searched" | sed -e 's/ /\\s/g')

Thanks to Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker for the tip :)

Best,
David.
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