On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 12:01 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > > Are there any TODO items here? > > It's possible there's something we want to change here, but it's far > from obvious what that thing is. Our WAL file handling is > ridiculously hard to understand, but the problem with changing it is > that there will then be two things people have to understand, and a > lot of tools that have to be revamped. It isn't clear that it's worth > going through that kind of pain for a minor improvement in clarity.
The idea was that since we already broke some tools, possibly silently (...FF files that they previously skipped), a more radical renaming might break those tools more obviously, and make some other things simpler/easier down the road. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
