| From: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_encoding not needed anymore |
| Date: | 2004-04-20 17:37:58 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0404201137060.19318-100000@css120.ihs.com |
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On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > >past. I think createuser is much worse. :-)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Agreed. Actually, the big problem with the name "initdb" is that the
> > name is misleading, and newbies often get confused by it. You are
> > preparing a data store for many databases, not a single database. But I
> > think it is far too sanctified by history to change now, just as Ken
> > Thompson now wishes he had put an 'e' on the end of 'creat' but can't go
> > back and fix it. Maybe we should think about a symlink/hardlink to use a
> > better name.
>
> Yea, initcluster would have been better, but cluster confuses with
> CLUSTER, just like database schema confuses with CREATE SCHEMA.
Maybe initpg or pg_init or something like that?
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