Re: [HACKERS] Major Problem, need help! Can't run our

Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca> writes:
> On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 23:02 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> There's something in what you say.  We'd have to rename pg_clog as well,
>> since that's even more critical than pg_xlog ...

> Rename them to pg_donttouchthis and pg_youneedthis.

:-)

On a more serious level: Tim's suggestion of "pg_wal" for pg_xlog sounds
fine to me.  How about "pg_trans" for pg_clog, by analogy to the
existing pg_subtrans?  Nothing else in the standard layout looks like
it's got a name that a newbie would think means discardable data.

                       regards, tom lane

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