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From: Mike Mascari <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: 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, 01 Dec 2003 10:46:01 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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.
> 

active_xdata
active_cdata

Mike Mascari
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