Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Craig Ringer <craig(dot)ringer(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog
Date: 2016-10-04 17:38:35
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYbTdrs_ghOtDCRGZgOM6VdbCPSsWaaJxvOVHsHaD-OUg@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 1:48 AM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Yes, pg_wal is fine as new name in replacement of pg_xlog. Now for the
> pg_clog...

Of course the irony here is that "WAL" stands for "Write Ahead Log".
So we're renaming a directly that has "log" in the name (pg_xlog) to a
directory that has an "l" in the name which stands for "log" (pg_wal).
Whee!

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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