Re: pg_validatebackup -> pg_verifybackup?

On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 4:58 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 5:51 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
> wrote:
> >> I like this idea so much that I already proposed it in the past[1], so
> +1.
> >>
> >> [1] https://postgr.es/m/20160826202911.GA320593@alvherre.pgsql
>
> > Hey, look at that. I think I had some vague recollection of a prior
> > proposal, but I couldn't remember exactly who or exactly what had been
> > proposed. I do think that pg_ctl is too long a prefix, though. People
> > can get used to typing 'pg createdb' instead of 'createdb' but 'pg_ctl
> > createdb' seems like too much. At least, it would very very quickly
> > cause me to install aliases.
>
> Yeah, I'd be happier with "pg" than "pg_ctl" as well. But it's so
> short that I wonder if some other software has already adopted it.
>

There's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pg_(Unix).

So it's been removed from posix, but not unlikely to be around. For
example, I see it on a server with Debian 9 (Stretch) or Ubuntu 16.04 which
is still well in support (but not on a RedHat from the same era).

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