* Robert Haas (robertmh...@gmail.com) wrote: > I'm OK with continuing to use "xlog" as the user-facing name for the > write-ahead log, and I am OK with switching to wal. But leaving > things in the halfway in-between state where they are right now seems > like a mess. It conveniences the people who happen to care about the > names of the parts we haven't renamed yet but not the part we already > did rename at the price of a permanent inconsistency in naming > conventions that can't ever eliminate. Yuck.
I'm more of a '-1' when it comes to keeping everything called "xlog", and a '+1' on renaming everything to be WAL, since that's what we usually refer to this thing as, but I agree with Robert that only doing a half-way renaming is about a -1000. Thanks! Stephen
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