| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog |
| Date: | 2016-08-29 14:48:13 |
| Message-ID: | f1261e6b-2903-405e-3575-2e667f194a8d@commandprompt.com |
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On 08/27/2016 11:11 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> I'm for renaming too, but I'd go with Peter E's suggestion: move pg_xlog
>> to something like $PGDATA/var/wal or $PGDATA/srv/wal or something like that.
>
> I think that would make sense if we were to relocate *everything* under
> PGDATA into some FHS-like subdirectory structure. But I'm against moving
> the config files for previously-stated reasons, and I doubt it makes sense
> to adopt an FHS-like structure only in part.
I think that is a very reasonable suggestion.
Also as a note to the idea that we make break things for external user
space; the next version being v10 is the exact time to do that.
JD
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
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