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

On 2017-01-26 14:05:43 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> I completely understand that position.  I have always been doubtful of
> the value of renaming pg_xlog to pg_wal, and I'm not any more
> dedicated to the idea now than I was when I committed that patch.  But
> there was overwhelming support for it, consensus on a level rarely
> seen here.

I think that consistency was based on the change being a narrow
proposition, not a license to run around and change a lot of stuff
including the names of binary.


> I do not think it can be right to rename the directory and not
> anything else.  I stand by what I wrote in
> 
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+TgmobeHP2qbtMvYxG2x8Pm_9utjRya-rom5XL4QuyA26c1Gg@mail.gmail.com

I'm tempted to quote Emerson ;).  I don't think the naming of pg_xlog
vs. pg_wal doesn't actually have that large an impact, to change the
dynamics of the wal vs xlog dichotomy.  Sure it's nothing you'd do in a
new program, but neither is it very bad.

Andres