From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | zztong(at)laxmi(dot)ev(dot)net (Bruce Tong) |
Cc: | lynch(at)lscorp(dot)com, scrappy(at)hub(dot)org, M(dot)Boekhold(at)et(dot)tudelft(dot)nl, joden(at)lee(dot)k12(dot)nc(dot)us, pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, pgsql-docs(at)postgreSQL(dot)orghackers |
Subject: | Re: [DOCS] Re: [GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: SGVLLUG Oracle and Informix on Linux] |
Date: | 1998-07-24 16:05:05 |
Message-ID: | 199807241605.MAA18378@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > >> In fact, they are handled by SQL: CREATE DATABASE and DROP DATABASE. The
> > >> createdb and destroydb tools just call these SQL statements....
>
> > > Let's remove the "I don't want to think" utilities like
> > >{create,destroy}{db,user} and force DBA's to actually use the *proper*
> > >functions.
>
> > While the man pages indicate that these invoke psql, and that a postmaster
> > must be running, and somebody really smart could infer that that means that
> > there is SQL to do the action, it would be much, much better if the man
> > pages explicitly stated that it was merely a shortcut to using the sql.
>
> I think only doing it the SQL way would be fine. Documentation would, of
> course, have to cover it. I want, no need, to know what functionality
> belongs to SQL and what belongs to PostgreSQL. I've certainly not got any
> qualms about dropping into psql to do things. I like psql.
They have to connect to template1 to do the work. Currently, they don't
need to know template1 even exists, so it seems like an added burden. I
will add a mention to the createdb, destroydb man pages. createuser
does psql too.
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