On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 8:03 AM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 1/26/17 2:05 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> I do not think it can be right to rename the directory and not
>> anything else.
>
> I think this is the root of the confusion.
>
> A lot of people apparently consented to renaming pg_xlog with the
> understanding that that's it, whereas other people understood it as
> consensus for renaming everything.
>
> You really have (at least) three options here:
>
> 1. Rename nothing
> 2. Rename directory only
> 3. Rename everything
>
> and you need to count the votes of each pair separately.
4. Rename everything with aliases.
I would vote for 4., or 3. for consistency if 4. is not an eligible choice.
--
Michael