Re: pg_encoding not needed anymore

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>Karel Zak wrote:
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>>On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 08:41:18PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
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>>>With initdb written now in C, we don't need a pg_encoding binary
>>>anymore.
>>>
>>>
>> By the way, what change the name of "initdb" to "pg_initdb". The
>> current name is really too common (like some others things in
>> pgsql/src/bin)
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>>
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>Uh, that would be pretty major. No one has complained about it in the
>past. I think createuser is much worse. :-)
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Agreed. Actually, the big problem with the name "initdb" is that the
name is misleading, and newbies often get confused by it. You are
preparing a data store for many databases, not a single database. But I
think it is far too sanctified by history to change now, just as Ken
Thompson now wishes he had put an 'e' on the end of 'creat' but can't go
back and fix it. Maybe we should think about a symlink/hardlink to use a
better name.

cheers

andrew