| From: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog |
| Date: | 2016-10-21 02:12:01 |
| Message-ID: | CAKFQuwbW-DKVcpuDtGkYq9NS-LD_atP4O9wxzRd7Eewt4xx5fw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > I'm mostly with Stephen on this. As the names stand, they encourage
> > people to go look at the documentation,
> > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/storage-file-layout.html
> > which will provide more information than you'd ever get out of any
> > reasonable directory name.
>
> Well, we could change them all to pg_a, pg_b, pg_c, pg_d, ... which
> would encourage that even more strongly. But I don't think that
> proposal can be taken seriously. Giving things meaningful names is a
> good practice in almost every case.
>
Those don't have the virtue of being at least somewhat
m
nemonic
like pg_xact.
I'll toss my lot in with Steven's and Tom's on this.
I have no problem continuing keeping with historical precedent and
allowing mnemonic abbreviations in our directory and file names at this
point.
David J.
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