Re: [HACKERS] renaming "transaction log"

On 5/11/17 12:00, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> Most documentation and error messages still uses the term "transaction
>> log" to refer to the write-ahead log.  Here is a patch to rename that,
>> which I think should be done, to match the xlog -> wal renaming in APIs.
> 
> This will need to be rebased over d10c626de, which made a few of the
> same/similar changes but did not try to hit stuff that wasn't adjacent
> to what it was changing anyway.  I'm +1 for the idea though.  I think
> we should also try to standardize on the terminology "WAL location"
> for LSNs, not variants such as "WAL position" or "log position".

done

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