Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Rename pg_switch_xlog to pg_switch_wal

* Robert Haas (robertmhaas@gmail.com) wrote:
> I'm OK with continuing to use "xlog" as the user-facing name for the
> write-ahead log, and I am OK with switching to wal.  But leaving
> things in the halfway in-between state where they are right now seems
> like a mess.  It conveniences the people who happen to care about the
> names of the parts we haven't renamed yet but not the part we already
> did rename at the price of a permanent inconsistency in naming
> conventions that can't ever eliminate.  Yuck.

I'm more of a '-1' when it comes to keeping everything called "xlog",
and a '+1' on renaming everything to be WAL, since that's what we
usually refer to this thing as, but I agree with Robert that only doing
a half-way renaming is about a -1000.

Thanks!

Stephen