Re: [HACKERS] rename pg_log directory?

On Tue, Mar  7, 2017 at 12:01:04AM +0100, Andreas Karlsson wrote:
> On 02/27/2017 03:05 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >How about changing the default for log_directory from 'pg_log' to, say,
> >'log'?
> 
> I have attached a patch which does this. I do not care much about which name
> is picked as long as we get rid off the "pg_" prefix.
> 
> Btw, is there a reason for why global and base do not have the "pg_" prefix?

"data" and "base" where chosen because it is a "data-base", but with the
pg_ prefixes it would be a pg_data_pg_base.  ;-)

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