| From: | Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Fred (dot)Flintstone" <eldmannen(at)gmail(dot)com>, Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)adjust(dot)com>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system |
| Date: | 2019-03-21 06:04:25 |
| Message-ID: | c2397e32-1397-239c-c5b9-280c026b1cba@proxel.se |
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On 3/20/19 8:19 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2019-03-20 15:15:02 -0400, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>> If we are evaluating this whole symlink / renaming thing, there could be
>> arguments for a "pgsql" alias to psql (or vice versa), but I don't think
>> "pg_sql" makes any sense and could be fairly confusing.
>
> I don't care much about createdb etc, but I'm *strongly* against
> renaming psql and/or adding symlinks. That's like 95% of all
> interactions people have with postgres binaries, making that more
> confusing would be an enterily unnecessary self own.
+1 "psql" as a tool for connecting to PostgreSQL is so well established
that renaming it would just confuse everyone.
Andreas
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