From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
Cc: | Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov(at)google(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Cynthia Shang <cynthia(dot)shang(at)crunchydata(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Rename pg_switch_xlog to pg_switch_wal |
Date: | 2017-01-24 21:47:29 |
Message-ID: | CA+TgmoamadraNPDw7VxbHMAepsjGkPzhxFUrvKY_pfLrJSae0A@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> For the record, I don't like the name "xlog" either. It would be nice
> if we could have more consistent and intuitive naming.
Great!
> But I don't see any proposals to actually change all uses of "xlog" to
> "wal". What about program names, command line options, etc.? If the
> argument is, we changed one thing, we should change the rest, then let's
> see that. I think that argument itself is flawed, but if that's what
> we're going with, let's see the whole plan.
I'm happy to go change every last bit of it. I was expecting after I
committed the initial rename that somebody would provide a follow-on
patch to do the rest of it in short order. Instead, months went by
and we still don't have a complete patch. But I don't see why that
has to take more than a day's work, probably just a few hours. I'd
like to do that and move on.
> Moreover, I see we still have the pg_clog directory. I thought that was
> supposed to be renamed as well, to avoid confusing it with a "log"
> directory. Surely, we should at least conclude that original chapter
> before going further.
I'm not excited about starting to change pg_clog before we finish with
xlog -> wal. Then we just have two half-done things, IMO. But I'm
also not the only one with a commit bit.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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