Re: Removing binaries (was: createlang/droplang deprecated)

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Removing binaries (was: createlang/droplang deprecated)
Date: 2017-03-19 20:29:44
Message-ID: d7b39997-39fa-3c59-41cc-f062c3b18b93@commandprompt.com
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On 03/19/2017 01:01 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se> writes:
>> As for if we should have backwards compatibility for the old names I am
>> leaning weakly for providing it in the case of createuser. I can see end
>> users being pissed off that the createuser command is suddenly gone
>> without any warning when they upgrade. On the flip side I have no idea
>> how much work it would be to maintain those legacy names.
>
> It seems reasonably trivial to me as far as the code goes --- just
> create a symlink during installation. (On Windows I suppose we'd have
> to make a second physical copy, but these files are not so large that
> that seems unacceptable.)

Windows supports symlinks:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365680(v=vs.85).aspx

JD

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