From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | "Sergio A(dot) Kessler" <ser(at)perio(dot)unlp(dot)edu(dot)ar> |
Cc: | Brook Milligan <brook(at)biology(dot)nmsu(dot)edu>, lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu, 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 20:51:46 |
Message-ID: | 199910112051.QAA05209@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> my suggestion was:
> in 7.0: provide symlinks for backward compatibility and make big
> warnings 'don't use createuser, etc. they are deprecated'
> all over the place ...
> in 7.1: remove the symlinks.
>
> > I agree; underscores are a pain. If you must go this direction, I
> > suggest hyphens (-).
>
> yup, but maybe (-) can rise problems in some filesystems ...
> (I certainly don't know)
> and more importantly you have then to rename pg_dump and pg_dumpall
> wich is the more heavily used command in scripts ...
> my idea was to leave this commands untouched.
>
> as for longnames that Thomas doesn't like (wich I don't agree because
> my idea for upgrading scripts is just: 'prepend a pg_ to the commands')
> what about pg_adduser, pg_deluser, pg_adddb, etc ? ;)
That's a compromise. The destroy* entries are from the old quel days.
Of course, that would make pg_deluser into pg_dropuser, but adddb would
be createdb, and we are back were we started. :-)
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