Re: Script binaries renaming

From: Zdeněk Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Script binaries renaming
Date: 2008-03-26 13:03:32
Message-ID: 47EA49A4.6020706@sun.com
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Andrew Dunstan napsal(a):
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>
> Zdeněk Kotala wrote:
>> Question is also how many users really use these commands. For example
>> vacuumdb is not too important now when we have autovacuum.
>
> This is not true. Plenty of apps will quite reasonably choose to follow
> large batch updates by a single vacuumdb rather than using autovacuum.

Yes, up to 8.2, but I think situation for 8.3 could be different. We have more
works, autovacuum is better and so on.

> Incidentally, I am less opposed than some to some sensible renaming
> here, eventually. Perhaps we could take the opportunity to fix the
> naming of initdb, which confuses the heck out of many people.

Instead of renaming initdb extend pg_ctl (pg_ctl init) seems to me as a better idea.

Zdenek

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