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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Oliver Elphick <[email protected]>
Cc: Neil Conway <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL hackers list <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] initdb should create a warning message [was Re: [ADMIN]
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 10:34:14 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Tom Lane wrote:
> Oliver Elphick <[email protected]> writes:
> > On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 23:18, Neil Conway wrote:
> >> I do agree that we could stand to document the purpose of pg_clog
> >> and pg_xlog more clearly. However, this information belongs in the
> >> standard documentation, not scattered throughout $PGDATA.
> 
> > Then it needs to be stated very prominently.  But the place to put a
> > sign saying "Dangerous cliff edge" is beside the path that leads along
> > it.
> 
> How about changing the names of those directories?

I thought about that, but what would we call them?  We could change xlog
to wal, I guess.  That might actually be clearer.  xlog could become
xstatus or xactstatus or just xact.

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