Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

Does anyone oppose the proposal?
How can we determine consensus?
Is there any voting process?

Is there any developer who is more versed than me with C than me who
can write this patch?

On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 2:52 PM Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org> wrote:
>
> Re: Fred .Flintstone 2019-04-10 <CAJgfmqVQWFM7F-JogWEo6MWGA8Oa8BtB4dYAo=y7X5q=SBd35A(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com>
> > It seems we do have a clear path forward on how to accomplish this and
> > implement this change.
> >
> > 1. Rename executables to carry the pg_ prefix.
> > 2. Create symlinks from the old names to the new names.
> > 3. Modify the executables to read argv[0] and print a warning if the
> > executable is called from the old name (symlink).
> >
> > This seems technically feasible and easy.
> >
> > How can we proceed?
>
> You can send a patch.
>
> But I don't think there has been a "clear" agreement that this is a
> good idea.
>
> Christoph