Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog

On Aug 26, 2016 5:13 PM, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
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> On 08/25/2016 07:39 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am relaunching $subject as 10 development will begin soon. As far as
>> I know, there is agreement that we can do something here. Among the
>> different proposals I have found:
>> - pg_clog renamed to pg_commit_status, pg_xact or pg_commit
>> - pg_xlog renamed to pg_xjournal, pg_wal or pg_journal
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>
> I think the use of the pg_ prefix is redundant. Just a directory called:
wal will do (for example).
>
> In reference to pg_xlog specifically, it should be wal. It is the Write
Ahead Log, not the Journal (although I recognize they can be synonymous).
All the documentation talks about Write Ahead Log.
>

Yes, let's avoid inventing a *third* name for it, please. It's already bad
enough that we have both wal and xlog.

/Magnus