On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Craig Ringer
> <craig.ringer@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> Cool. I'll mark as waiting on author pending that.
>>
>> It'll be good to get this footgun put away.
>
> OK, so done. I have put the renaming of pg_xlog to pg_wal on top patch
> stack as that's the one making no discussion it seems: a lot of people
> like pg_wal. I have added as well handling for the renaming in
> pg_basebackup by using PQserverVersion. One thing to note is that a
> connection needs to be made to the target server *before* creating the
> soft link of pg_xlog/pg_wal because we need to know the version of the
> target server. pg_upgrade is handled as well. And that's all in 0001.
>
> Patch 0002 does pg_clog -> pg_trans, "trans" standing for
> "transaction". Switching to pg_trans_status or pg_xact_status is not
> that complicated to change anyway...
Any input to offer for those patches? If there is nothing happening, I
guess that the best move is just to move it to next CF. At least I can
see that the flow would be to get those renamings done.
--
Michael