On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 23:02 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Tim Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > We've seen reports of people firing this particular foot-gun before, 
> > haven't we? Would it make sense to rename pg_xlog to something that 
> > doesn't sound like it's "just" full of log files? Eg pg_wal - something 
> > where the half-educated will have no idea what it is, and therefore not 
> > think they know what they can do with it.
> 
> 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.
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