On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 09:51:26AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > How about changing the default for log_directory from 'pg_log' to, say,
> > 'log'?
>
> > We have been emphasizing that the prefix "pg_" is for things reserved to
> > PostgreSQL, whereas the pg_log directory is entirely an arbitrary
> > user-space name. Also, with a different name, the directory would stand
> > out more between all the other pg_* directories in the data directory.
>
> No objection to the basic point, but "log" seems perhaps a little too
> generic to me. Would something like "server_log" be better?
"activity_log"? I like the idea of a rename.
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