| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Brook Milligan <brook(at)biology(dot)nmsu(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu, ser(at)perio(dot)unlp(dot)edu(dot)ar, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: [INTERFACES] Next release is 7.0(?) |
| Date: | 1999-10-11 17:04:56 |
| Message-ID: | 199910111704.NAA05891@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > I hope we don't have a consensus on this. Long commands with
> > underscores in them are certainly another sign of the coming
> > apocalypse ;)
>
> But if we keep symlinks to the existing names, is that OK?
>
> Isn't the point to avoid naming conflicts. Symlinks won't help that,
> surely.
>
> I agree; underscores are a pain. If you must go this direction, I
> suggest hyphens (-).
You could make the actual command pg_createuser, and make a symlink of
createuser, but allow the symlink creation to fail. Best of both
worlds, I think. I vote for underscore. That's what I normally use.
Dashes look too much like command arguments.
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