Rod Taylor <pg@xxxxxx> 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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly