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

From: "Dawid Kuroczko" <qnex42(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Tomasz Ostrowski" <tometzky(at)batory(dot)org(dot)pl>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Survey: renaming/removing script binaries (createdb, createuser...)
Date: 2008-03-28 15:24:32
Message-ID: 758d5e7f0803280824q335b1a16me83d73259024637e@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Tomasz Ostrowski
<tometzky(at)batory(dot)org(dot)pl> wrote:
> On 2008-03-28 02:00, Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:
> > On 28/03/2008, Dawid Kuroczko <qnex42(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >> Agree, except I would prefer "pg" instead of "pgc".
> >
>
> > And it's been taken for about 35 years by a Unix command called "page".
> > From its man-page.
>
> > pg - browse pagewise through text files
>
> So maybe "pctl", consistent with "psql".
>
> It is short enough, does not need "shift" and does not confuse, if man
> knows that it has something to do with Postgres. It looks it is yet not
> taken.

I like it. Personally "pctl" feels better than "pgc" :-)

Regards,
Dawid

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