On 2020-04-01 03:55, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Agreed. I ended up moving "wal" as a separate word, since it looks cleaner; patch attached. Tools that look for the backend type in pg_stat_activity would need to be adjusted; it would be an incompatibility. Maybe changing it would cause too much disruption.
Yeah, it's probably not worth the change for that reason. There is no confusion what the "archiver" is. Also, we have archive_mode, archive_command, etc. without a wal_ prefix. Let's leave it as is.
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