| From: | Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br> |
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| To: | Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog |
| Date: | 2016-08-26 14:36:43 |
| Message-ID: | 47eda150-4789-da62-315a-35a9eda9cebc@timbira.com.br |
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On 26-08-2016 09:25, Devrim Gündüz wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-08-26 at 21:12 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> In short, with the current names, sometimes users think that pg_xlog
>> and pg_clog are just logs. And so it is fine to delete them to free up
>> space, corrupting their cluster, because they are just *logs*.
>
> ...and we also have "pg_logical", that includes a "log" keyword already...
>
"clog" and "xlog" is almost "log"; "logical" is not. I don't imagine
people confusing "logical" meaning "log".
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