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Rename "pg_clog" directory to "pg_xact".

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Names containing the letters "log" sometimes confuse users into
believing that only non-critical data is present.  It is hoped
this renaming will discourage ill-considered removals of transaction
status data.

Michael Paquier

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoa9xFQyjRZupbdEFuwUerFTvC6HjZq1ud6GYragGDFFgA@mail.gmail.com
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Robert Haas
2017-03-17 09:46:58 -04:00
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@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ at about the same time would OR the same bits into the field, so there
is little or no risk of conflicting update; what's more, if there did
manage to be a conflict it would merely mean that one bit-update would
be lost and need to be done again later. These four bits are only hints
(they cache the results of transaction status lookups in pg_clog), so no
(they cache the results of transaction status lookups in pg_xact), so no
great harm is done if they get reset to zero by conflicting updates.
Note, however, that a tuple is frozen by setting both HEAP_XMIN_INVALID
and HEAP_XMIN_COMMITTED; this is a critical update and accordingly requires