From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
Cc: | Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: script binaries renaming |
Date: | 2008-03-24 21:16:17 |
Message-ID: | 20080324141617.636ca4a7@commandprompt.com |
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On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:12:19 -0700
David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> > Yeah, I have to had two reason for this patch. First is my personal,
> > because I don't like these names since 1999. And second is that
> > Solaris architects do not like these names. Especially createdb and
> > createuser. It could clash with some system utility.
>
> +1 for renaming the utilities. Not stomping on the global namespace
> is one place where MySQL is really out ahead of us.
- -1 I have not yet seen an argument that has compelled me to actually
want to have us enter the Gnome world of binary naming.
However, if we *must* go down this route let us please use pgcreatedb
*not* pg_createdb.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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