On 2/9/17 2:14 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>>wrote:
> 
>     Robert Haas <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>     writes:
>     > On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Magnus Hagander <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>     >>> Here is what I have, 6 votes clearly stated:
>     >>> 1. Rename nothing: Daniel,
>     >>> 2. Rename directory only: Andres
>     >>> 3. Rename everything: Stephen, Vladimir, David S, Michael P (with
>     >>> aliases for functions, I could live without at this point...)
> 
>     > [ vote-counting ]
> 
>     > Therefore, I plan to go ahead and do #3.  Somebody's probably going to
>     > jump in now with another opinion but I think this thread's gone on
>     > long enough.
> 
>     Agreed, let's just get it done.
> 
>     Although this doesn't really settle whether we ought to do 3a (with
>     backwards-compatibility function aliases in core) or 3b (without 'em).
>     Do people want to re-vote, understanding that those are the remaining
>     choices?

-1 on aliases in core (so to be clear my vote is for 3b).

> ​I wouldn't oppose:
> 
> CREATE EXTENSION give_me_my_xlog_back;
> 
> but my prior thoughts lead me toward not including such functions in the
> bootstrap catalog.

I'm not very excited about an extension, can we just provide a link to a
script in the release notes, or simply note that wrappers can be created?

-- 
-David
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