On Aug 26, 2016 5:13 PM, "Joshua D. Drake" <j...@commandprompt.com> wrote: > > On 08/25/2016 07:39 PM, Michael Paquier wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I am relaunching $subject as 10 development will begin soon. As far as >> I know, there is agreement that we can do something here. Among the >> different proposals I have found: >> - pg_clog renamed to pg_commit_status, pg_xact or pg_commit >> - pg_xlog renamed to pg_xjournal, pg_wal or pg_journal > > > I think the use of the pg_ prefix is redundant. Just a directory called: wal will do (for example). > > In reference to pg_xlog specifically, it should be wal. It is the Write Ahead Log, not the Journal (although I recognize they can be synonymous). All the documentation talks about Write Ahead Log. >
Yes, let's avoid inventing a *third* name for it, please. It's already bad enough that we have both wal and xlog. /Magnus
