| From: | Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Fred (dot)Flintstone" <eldmannen(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Mark Kirkwood <mark(dot)kirkwood(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)adjust(dot)com>, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system |
| Date: | 2019-03-27 13:51:16 |
| Message-ID: | 20190327135116.GA17983@development |
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On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 02:31:14PM +0100, Fred .Flintstone wrote:
>Many of these are gone in the modern PostgreSQL, a few remain.
>https://packages.ubuntu.com/disco/amd64/postgresql-client-11/filelist
>
>/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/clusterdb
>/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/createdb
>/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/createuser
>/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/dropdb
>/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/dropuser
>/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/pg_basebackup
>/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/pg_dump
>/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/pg_dumpall
>/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/pg_isready
>/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/pg_receivewal
>/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/pg_recvlogical
>/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/pg_restore
>/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/psql
>/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/reindexdb
>/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/vacuumdb
>
>Can we rename clusterdb, reindexdb and vacuumdb to carry the pg_ prefix?
>
I think the consensus in this thread (and the previous ancient ones) is
that it's not worth it. It's one thing to introduce new commands with the
pg_ prefix, and it's a completely different thing to rename existing ones.
That has inherent costs, and as Tom pointed out the burden would fall on
people using PostgreSQL (and that's rather undesirable).
I personally don't see why having commands without pg_ prefix would be
an issue. Especially when placed in a separate directory, which eliminates
the possibility of conflict with other commands.
regards
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Tomas Vondra http://www.2ndQuadrant.com
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
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