| From: | "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Fred (dot)Flintstone" <eldmannen(at)gmail(dot)com>, Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)adjust(dot)com>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system |
| Date: | 2019-03-20 19:21:34 |
| Message-ID: | 958a8e99-514c-5f80-fcc5-1dc3d96ee9f1@postgresql.org |
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On 3/20/19 3:19 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2019-03-20 15:15:02 -0400, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>> If we are evaluating this whole symlink / renaming thing, there could be
>> arguments for a "pgsql" alias to psql (or vice versa), but I don't think
>> "pg_sql" makes any sense and could be fairly confusing.
>
> I don't care much about createdb etc, but I'm *strongly* against
> renaming psql and/or adding symlinks. That's like 95% of all
> interactions people have with postgres binaries, making that more
> confusing would be an enterily unnecessary self own.
Yeah I agree. The only one I would entertain is "pgsql" given enough
people refer to PostgreSQL as such, but note I use the term "entertain"
in a similar way to when I knowingly watch terrible movies.
Jonathan
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