Re: Survey: renaming/removing script binaries (createdb, createuser...)

Tom Lane napsal(a):
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I like this too. It'd be considerably more work than the currently
>>> proposed patch, though, since we'd have to meld the currently
>>> separate programs into one executable.
>
>> I note that we can continue to have the current executables stashed in
>> PREFIX/share/libexec and let the "pg" executable exec them.
>
> Not share/ surely, since these are executables, but yeah.
>
> This brings me to the idea that "pg" is a very small stupid program
> that just tries to match its first argument against a filename in
> PREFIX/libexec/postgresql. If it finds a match it execs that program
> with the remaining args, else it fails. If we do it that way then the
> problem of a client-only installation is solved: it merely has a smaller
> population of files in PREFIX/libexec, and "pg" doesn't know the
> difference. Also the problem of optionally providing the old names just
> reduces to providing links in bin/, whereas with a melded executable
> we'd need still more smarts to look at how it'd been invoked.
>
> So +2 or so for this one.

It sounds good. Only one comments libexec is not on Solaris, but PREFIX/lib is
allowed to use for this purpose.

Zdenek