| From: | Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Fred (dot)Flintstone" <eldmannen(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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>, 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 14:20:05 |
| Message-ID: | 20190327142005.GB17983@development |
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On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 11:00:18AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>On 2019-Mar-27, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>
>> 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 thought the consensus was to rename them, and install symlinks to the
>old names.
>
I know symlinks were mentioned/proposed, but I don't think there's a clear
consensus to do that. I might have missed that part of the discussion.
That being said, I'm not strongly opposed to doing that, although I still
don't see the need to do that ...
regard
>--
>Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
>PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
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