| From: | Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda <acamari(at)verlet(dot)org> |
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| To: | "Fred (dot)Flintstone" <eldmannen(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Mark Kirkwood <mark(dot)kirkwood(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)adjust(dot)com>, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>, Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system |
| Date: | 2019-03-28 13:31:53 |
| Message-ID: | CAPD=2NgnsOn1bd01Ap-G43KWtJwmJ8=vN2WK3vBZSTc2mb-9Yw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thursday, March 28, 2019, Fred .Flintstone <eldmannen(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> There would be no need to remove anything if we just renamed the
> executable and created symlinks for them.
Will there still be man pages for both commands?
man pg_createuser
man createuser
?
>
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 10:20 PM Peter Eisentraut
> <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > On 2019-03-27 18:09, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > My recollection of the discussion is that people argued that
> "postmaster"
> > > might be taken to have something to do with an e-mail server, and
> > > therefore we needed to stop using that name. The lack of either
> follow-on
> > > complaints or follow-on action doesn't make me too well disposed to
> > > what is essentially that same argument over again.
> >
> > The reason there was that the distinction was mostly useless and the
> > different command-line option parsing was confusing. The name itself
> > was confusing but not in conflict with anything.
> >
> > However, we do know that we are very bad at actually getting rid of
> > deprecated things.
> >
> > How about we compromise in this thread and remove postmaster and leave
> > everything else as is. ;-)
> >
> > --
> > Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
> > PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
>
>
>
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