From: | Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)seespotcode(dot)net> |
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To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Cc: | Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, Zdenek Kotala <zdenek(dot)kotala(at)sun(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: script binaries renaming |
Date: | 2007-07-06 17:24:58 |
Message-ID: | 2D24722C-AA10-48FE-9F70-E58154072CA7@seespotcode.net |
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On Jul 6, 2007, at 11:28 , Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Why should they be name spaced? I see zero reason why that should
> be the case...
>
> apache_httpd?
> gnu_ls?
Personally, I think that the Apache daemon *should* be named apached
or something along those lines.
Compare with postgres, pg_ctl, pg_dump, or pg_config. Albeit postgres
is not consistent, they're all easily identifiable with PostgreSQL.
In my opinion, postgres, pg_ctl, pg_ccmp, and pg_config are better
names than, say, dbmsd, dbms_ctl, db_dump, and db_config. Also, we
recently deprecated the use of postmaster (easily confused with mail
systems) in favor of postgres. Looking at the binaries that are
installed for 8.2:
clusterdb
createdb
createlang
createuser
dropdb
droplang
dropuser
ecpg
initdb
ipcclean
pg_config
pg_controldata
pg_ctl
pg_dump
pg_dumpall
pg_resetxlog
pg_restore
postgres
postmaster -> postgres
psql
reindexdb
vacuumdb
If these are all dumped into /usr/local/bin (as they sometimes are),
many of them are not readily identifiable with PostgreSQL. Shouldn't
they be? Compare with Subversion:
svn
svnadmin
svndumpfileter
svnlook
svnserver
svnsync
svnversion
I find these names much more consistent.
Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net
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