Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

From: Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>
To: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>
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Subject: Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system
Date: 2019-03-29 19:41:48
Message-ID: a3ac7ce3-07db-f9f2-6dbc-eccc2a2bf293@anastigmatix.net
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On 3/29/19 3:32 PM, Joe Conway wrote:
> pg_util <command> <options>
>
> Of course that does not lend itself to symlinking for backward
> compatibility, does it? If there is a way I am not familiar with it.

On Unix-like systems, you can have pg_util look at argv[0] to see
if it was called createuser or what not.

Not sure how translatable that is to other systems.

Regards,
-Chap

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