| From: | Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)seespotcode(dot)net>, Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: script binaries renaming |
| Date: | 2007-07-09 13:48:03 |
| Message-ID: | 46923C93.1040809@sun.com |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM> writes:
>> There is group of people who has different opinion. The main reasons for
>> this patch are 1) names could collide with system tools
>
> That argument is purely theoretical, though, since no one has complained
> to us of an *actual* collision. With these utilities having been around
> with their current names for more than ten years, I think we've
> established sufficient squatter's rights on the names ;-).
You have right on linux/*bsd world where postgres is squatter :-) for long time.
But in Solaris world (and probably in HP-UX, AIX...) postgresql does not have
established these squatter's rights. And names as "createuser" is something like
reserved keyword for OS utilities.
Zdenek
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