Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog
Date: 2016-08-26 03:58:14
Message-ID: CAHGQGwHK2yimfLvG_WQ1Vrq2h+CMzgv5u6OEmxr-cbJRO+WKWQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 11:39:29AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> Now, one of the things discussed as well was that we may want to still
>> keep pg_xlog, and soft-link to pg_journal or whatever-the-new-name is
>> to not break the existing tools. Personally, I'd prefer a hard break.
>> That would not be complicated to fix for any tool maintainers.
>
> I agree on a hard break, unless we get pushback from users, and even
> then, they can create the symlinks themselves.

I strongly prefer symlink approach not to break many existing tools
and scripts.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao

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