Re: pgsql: Use the terminology "WAL file" not "log file" more consistently.

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Use the terminology "WAL file" not "log file" more consistently.
Date: 2022-09-15 10:12:40
Message-ID: cb64338d-a23e-67a9-8a72-4002013f9211@joeconway.com
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On 9/15/22 05:24, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2022-Sep-15, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Yeah, the lowest-tech solution is to accept either spelling of
>> the description string. But I'm not very happy with the whole
>> approach right now. We should have an implementation that isn't
>> dependent on how user-friendly strings are spelled.
>
> We already discussed this, a mere 12 years ago,
> https://postgr.es/m/1283373680-sup-9235@alvh.no-ip.org
> for exactly the same reason.

Nice!

> Let's just do it?

+1

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