Re: Command tags in create/drop scripts

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 08:12:22PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 05:52:39PM -0000, Andrew Hammond wrote:
> > On Jun 5, 9:19 am, alvhe(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)commandprompt(dot)com (Alvaro Herrera) wrote:
> > > Zdenek Kotala wrote:
> > > > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > > >Bruce Momjian <b(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > > > >>Is this a TODO?
> > >
> > > > >I don't think so; there is no demand from anybody but Zdenek to remove
> > > > >those programs. Has it ever even come up before?
> > >
> > > Personally I found really strange to have "createuser" and "createdb"
> > > shipped by Postgres when I started using it. I just didn't complain.
> >
> > +1. Given the prevalence of the pg_foo convention, those names are
> > clunky. So is initdb. I'm less creative than Zdenek, so I'd suggest
> > simply renaming to pg_createuser and friends with the same command
> > line options as the originals. Have the binaries check $0 and emit a
> > warning about using the deprecated name to STDERR if called by a name
> > that doesn't have the pg_ prefix. Default to symlinking the old names
> > for backwards compatibility until 9.0.
>
> +1

+1

It's a lot easier just to prefix the names than to do something
"clever."

Cheers,
D
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