| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Renaming of pg_xlog and pg_clog |
| Date: | 2016-08-26 21:06:45 |
| Message-ID: | 201d0d87-0933-72b5-0d56-429091a307ab@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 8/26/16 11:58 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> $PGDATA/etc
>> $PGDATA/log
>> $PGDATA/run (lock files etc.)
>> $PGDATA/tmp
>> $PGDATA/var
>>
>> The names of all the things under "var" could still be refined, but it's
>> much less likely that users will confuse data with configuration or
>> plain logs under that scheme
>
> Interesting idea. I worry a bit that this might encourage distributions
> to split it up into different places though, and I'm not sure we want to
> encourage that..
They already do this. This would just formalize where we think
appropriate boundaries between the pieces are.
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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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