Re: slotname vs slot_name

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Due to the opened window of the pg_control/catalog version bump a chance
> has opened to fix a inconsistency I've recently been pointed
> towards:
> Namely that replication slots are named 'slot_name' in one half of the
> cases and 'slotname' in the other. That's in views, SRF columns,
> function parameters and the primary_slotname recovery.conf parameter.
>
> My personal tendency would be to make it slot_name everywhere except the
> primary_slotname recovery.conf parameter. There we already have
> precedent for shortening names.
>
> Other opinions?

I like using "slot_name" everywhere, i.e, even in recovery.conf.
primary_slot_name seems not so long name.

BTW, what about also renaming pg_llog directory? I'm afraid that
a user can confuse pg_log with pg_llog.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao