| From: | Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>, Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)adjust(dot)com>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, "Fred (dot)Flintstone" <eldmannen(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system |
| Date: | 2019-03-21 04:06:17 |
| Message-ID: | 20190321040617.yfrtyphqpkj6bbxw@toroid.org |
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At 2019-03-20 23:22:44 +0100, tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com wrote:
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> I don't really understand what issue are we trying to solve here.
>
> Can someone describe a scenario where this (name of the binary not
> clearly indicating it's related postgres) causes issues in practice?
> On my system, there are ~1400 binaries in /usr/bin, and for the vast
> majority of them it's rather unclear where do they come from.
It sounds like a problem especially when described with charged terms
like "pollutes", but I agree with you and others that it just doesn't
seem worth the effort to try to rename everything.
-- Abhijit
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