On Monday 2005-11-14 20:48, Tim Allen wrote:
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OOPS deleted pg_xlog because surely it was only a log file.
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>
> 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.
>
> Tim
Renaming the file sounds like an excellent design decision since the current
name is a proven "human factor" bug.
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