Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

From: Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(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>, 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 14:36:07
Message-ID: 375ea28a-2e8c-9954-66b1-bd0a3ff657f5@proxel.se
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On 3/27/19 3:26 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> That is true, of course. But are there actual examples of such conflicts
> in practice? I mean, are there tools/packages that provide commands with
> a conflicting name? I'm not aware of any, and as was pointed before, we'd
> have ~20 years of history on any new ones.

That is a fair argument. Since we squatted those names back in the
mid-90s I think the risk of collision is low.

Andreas

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