| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Fred (dot)Flintstone" <eldmannen(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)adjust(dot)com>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system |
| Date: | 2019-03-20 17:32:54 |
| Message-ID: | 20190320173254.GA10059@alvherre.pgsql |
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On 2019-Mar-20, Fred .Flintstone wrote:
> Even just creating symlinks would be a welcome change.
> So the real binary is pg_foo and foo is a symoblic link that points to pg_foo.
> Then at least I can type pg_<tab> and use tab auto-completion to find
> everything related to PostgreSQL.
There is merit to this argument; if the starting point is an unknown
file /usr/bin/foo, then having it be a symlink to /usr/bin/pg_foo makes
it clear which package it belongs to. We don't *have to* get rid of the
symlinks any time soon, but installing as symlinks now will allow Skynet
to get rid of them some decades from now.
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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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