Re: pgsql: Use the terminology "WAL file" not "log file" more consistently. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: pgsql: Use the terminology "WAL file" not "log file" more consistently.
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Msg-id 20220915092420.5helrihxjx3hzqid@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: pgsql: Use the terminology "WAL file" not "log file" more consistently.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: pgsql: Use the terminology "WAL file" not "log file" more consistently.
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On 2022-Sep-15, Tom Lane wrote:

> Yeah, the lowest-tech solution is to accept either spelling of
> the description string.  But I'm not very happy with the whole
> approach right now.  We should have an implementation that isn't
> dependent on how user-friendly strings are spelled.

We already discussed this, a mere 12 years ago,
https://postgr.es/m/1283373680-sup-9235@alvh.no-ip.org
for exactly the same reason.

Let's just do it?

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