Re: [PATCH] Change "checkpoint starting" message to use "wal"

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Christoph Berg <christoph(dot)berg(at)credativ(dot)de>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change "checkpoint starting" message to use "wal"
Date: 2018-11-29 21:56:44
Message-ID: 20181129215644.f6kzxzj4x52pb3vq@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2018-Nov-29, Robert Haas wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 4:10 AM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 10:04:12AM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote:
> > > There's hundreds of other internal uses of xlog that were not touched
> > > either, only the user-facing parts were changed.
> >
> > I have heard of them ;)
> > Just wondering if this one is worth renaming as the variable is
> > isolated. It is not a big deal to do nothing though.
>
> Well, if we rename the user-visible part but not the internal part,
> then they don't match, which is odd.

But we already did that when we renamed all the xlog to WAL terminology
... why do we care about it now particularly?

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