Re: [PATCH] Rename pg_switch_xlog to pg_switch_wal

From: Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov(at)google(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(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>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(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: 2017-01-18 15:09:32
Message-ID: CAE1wr-wu3rSzgyybZLgXU6AGQvKbZUv-budKBvHqgBCf2G9vFw@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com
> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 8:15 PM, Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov(at)google(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > On the topic of binaries, there's going to be another patch renaming
> them.
> > Those will have no aliases as it's trivial to work-around (symlinks,
> shell
> > scripts, etc) and not so trivial to implement in a portable way.
>
> On Windows that would be a pain... So let's not use symlinks for binaries.

Just to be clear, I'm not proposing that we use symlinks. Just pointing out
that workarounds are trivial for the end users.

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Vladimir Rusinov
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