| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Andrew Hammond <andrew(dot)george(dot)hammond(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Command tags in create/drop scripts |
| Date: | 2007-06-09 14:12:09 |
| Message-ID: | 15904.1181398329@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 05:52:39PM -0000, Andrew Hammond wrote:
>>> +1. Given the prevalence of the pg_foo convention, those names are
>>> clunky. So is initdb. I'm less creative than Zdenek, so I'd suggest
>>> simply renaming to pg_createuser and friends with the same command
>>> line options as the originals. Have the binaries check $0 and emit a
>>> warning about using the deprecated name to STDERR if called by a name
>>> that doesn't have the pg_ prefix. Default to symlinking the old names
>>> for backwards compatibility until 9.0.
>>
>> +1
> +1
I like this better than the original proposal, too. Doing more than
this seems like more work and more confusion for users than the problem
justifies.
regards, tom lane
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