Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>,
Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>,
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Zdenek Kotala wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> >Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> >>Is this a TODO?
> >
> >I don't think so; there is no demand from anybody but Zdenek to remove
> >those programs. Has it ever even come up before?
Personally I found really strange to have "createuser" and "createdb"
shipped by Postgres when I started using it. I just didn't complain.
> "pg_ctl -D <path> init" instead of initdb command?
Seems a reasonable thing to do too. Harder to type for developers, but
how much of a problem this is for real users? And developers can script
the thing anyway so I don't think this is a real problem.
One idea is to move the offending binaries into libexec, and have pg_ctl
or other helpers (pg_cmd) call them; and where compatibility with the
old versions is requested, create symlinks in bindir.
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
