Re: [PATCH] Rename pg_switch_xlog to pg_switch_wal

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov(at)google(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, 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: 2017-01-12 05:56:10
Message-ID: CAHGQGwHp0HxowW_FdjvzGmJSDb0-6uGk7u52J0dWq8xACW6_0g@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 2:00 AM, Vladimir Rusinov <vrusinov(at)google(dot)com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 5:24 AM, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>>> As there are two school of thoughts on this thread, keeping your patch
>>> with the compatibility table is the best move for now. Even if we end
>>> up by having a version without aliases, that will be just code to
>>> remove in the final version.
>>
>> Indeed, it is trivial to kill aliases.
>>
>> New version of the patch attached.
>
> The patch still updates a bunch of .po files. Those are normally
> refreshed with the translation updates, so they had better be removed.
> Other than that, the patch looks in good shape to me so switch to
> "Ready for committer".
>
> So, to sum up things on this thread, here are the votes about the use
> of aliases or a pure breakage:
> - No to aliases, shake the world: Stephen, Tom, David F, Vik, Bruce M => 5
> - Yes to aliases: Michael P, Andres, Peter E., Cynthia S, Jim N,
> Vladimir, Simon R, Fujii-san => 8
> If I misunderstood things, please feel free to speak up.

To be pricise, I'd like to avoid the renaming of the functions at all rather
than using aliases.

Regards,

--
Fujii Masao

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