Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 10:22 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> OK. I can live with that as well. Attached are three patches. The
> pg_xlog -> pg_wal move, the pg_clog -> pg_transaction move, and the
> pg_clog -> pg_xact move. Only one survivor to be chosen among the last
> two ones.

Committed 0001.

To be honest, I don't really like either pg_transaction or pg_xact.
Neither name captures the fact that what we're really tracking here is
the transaction *status*. pg_xact is slightly worse because it's a
poor abbreviation for transaction, but I think the argument against
even pg_transaction is similar to the one Tom previously levied
against pg_logical - viz. "logical what?". The transaction themselves
are not stored in the directory, just the commit status. The fact
that commit status is saved is the source of the "c" in "clog".

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