Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda <acamari(at)verlet(dot)org>
Cc: "Fred (dot)Flintstone" <eldmannen(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Mark Kirkwood <mark(dot)kirkwood(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz>, 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: 2019-03-28 13:50:46
Message-ID: 20190328135046.GA3669@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2019-Mar-28, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda wrote:

> On Thursday, March 28, 2019, Fred .Flintstone <eldmannen(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > There would be no need to remove anything if we just renamed the
> > executable and created symlinks for them.
>
> Will there still be man pages for both commands?
>
> man pg_createuser
> man createuser

There are provisions in the manpage system to have some pages be
symlinks to other pages. We don't currently use that anywhere, but I
see no reason why we couldn't just do that.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

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