Re: initdb createuser commands

From: Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz>
To: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: initdb createuser commands
Date: 2016-10-30 00:31:12
Message-ID: 21e44017-0792-e1b2-8e51-51a83adf63f8@archidevsys.co.nz
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On 30/10/16 11:25, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 10/29/2016 3:02 PM, Samuel Williams wrote:
>> FYI,https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PostgreSQL mentions initdb,
>> createuser, createdb and several others. I think my suggestion is
>> still relevant and something that would improve the system for new
>> users
>
> and it would break it for the existing community that has up to 20
> years of experience with it, as well as breaking virtually all
> existing documentation, books, howto articles, etc, including the one
> you linked.
>
>
I think it would be good to have all the postgresql utilities prefixed
by pg_ to keep them together, but have aliases so existing scripts &
documentation (especially 3rd party) were still relevant.

However, I wouldn't consider it the highest priority.

Cheers,
Gavin

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