Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

On 2019-Mar-20, Euler Taveira wrote:

> Em qua, 20 de mar de 2019 às 14:57, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> escreveu:
> >
> > We managed to get rid of createlang and droplang in v10, and there
> > hasn't been that much push-back about it. So maybe there could be
> > a move to remove createuser/dropuser? Or at least rename them to
> > pg_createuser and pg_dropuser. But I think this was discussed
> > (again) during the v10 cycle, and we couldn't agree to do more than
> > get rid of createlang/droplang.

Previous discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/CABUevExPrfPH5K5qM=zsT7tvfyACe+i5qjA6bfWCKKYrh8MJLw@mail.gmail.com

> Votes? +1 to remove createuser/dropuser (and also createdb/dropdb as I
> said in the other email). However, if we don't have sufficient votes,
> let's at least consider a 'pg_' prefix.

I vote to keep these rename these utilities to have a pg_ prefix and to
simultaneously install symlinks for their current names, so that nothing
breaks.

[In a couple of releases we could patch them so that they print a
deprecation warning to stderr if they're invoked without the prefix.]

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