Re: Survey: renaming/removing script binaries (createdb, createuser...)

On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Zdeněk Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)sun(dot)com> wrote:
> 1) What type of names do you prefer?
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> a) old notation - createdb, createuser ...
> b) new one with pg_ prefix - pg_createdb, pg_creteuser ...
> c) new one with pg prefix - pgcreatedb, pgcreateuser ...
> d) remove them - psql is the solution
> e) remove them - pgadmin is the solution

c

Actually, I like a) because I'm used to them and they're in a lot of
scripts, but I can see advantages to making them look pg-specific.

> 2) How often do you use these tools?
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> a) every day (e.g. in my cron)
> b) one per week
> c) one time
> d) never

a

> 3) What name of initdb do you prefer?
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>
> a) initdb
> b) pg_initdb
> c) pg_init
> d) pg_ctl -d <dir> init (replace initdb with pg_ctl new functionality)
> e) What is initdb? My start/stop script does it automatically.

b

See notes on #1 though.

>
> 4) How do you perform VACUUM?
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>
> a) vacuumdb - shell command
> b) VACUUM - SQL command
> c) autovacuum
> d) What is vacuum?

c,a,b

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Alan