Re: Command names

I was about to say that it may cause more harm than good, but...

If they do want to move the utilities to the /bin folder, then that may be a
good solution. pg_access, pg_createdb etc would be put there and merely
mapped to the usual location of the createdb utilities.

That would solve the issues, correct?

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
----- Original Message -----
From: "Travis Bauer" <trbauer(at)cs(dot)indiana(dot)edu>
To: "Keith L. Musser" <kmusser(at)idisys(dot)com>
Cc: "PGSQL-General" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Command names

>
>
> It would probably be easy to create a link, or a script called pg_XXX that
> executes the command XXX. I'd rather have createdb instead of pg_createdb
> just because it's easier to type. A script that creates the pg_ command
> names could be written and made available at someone's web site for people
> who wanted it.
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Travis Bauer | CS Grad Student | IU |www.cs.indiana.edu/~trbauer
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Keith L. Musser wrote:
>
> > I know all of you are accustomed to the command line interface for
pgsql. (Of course, some of you created it!) However, I'd be interested if
anyone else feels the way I do....
> >
> > I would prefer to have a consistent set of names for the commands. For
example,
> > I propose the following:
> >
> > Instead of this use this.
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > createdb pg_createdb
> > createuser pg_createuser
> > destroydb pg_destroydb
> > initdb pg_initdb
> > initlocation pg_initlocation
> > pgaccess pg_accessgui
> > pgadmin pg_admin
> > pg_dump pg_dump
> > pg_dumpall pg_dumpall
> > postgres pg_single
> > postmaster pg_master
> > psql pg_access
> > vacuumdb pg_vacuumdb
> > ??? pg_help (list all these commands)
> >
> >
> > Not that it is terribly difficult the way it is. But I simply think
that a consistent set of names would help new users, and help to prevent
conflicts with other commands in the PATH. Any comments?
> >
> > - Keith
> >
> > Keith L. Musser
> > Integrated Dynamics, Inc.
> > 812-371-7777
> > email: kmusser(at)idisys(dot)com
> >
> >