Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Fred (dot)Flintstone" <eldmannen(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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 19:19:10
Message-ID: 20190320191910.ewgj7qtdewumefww@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2019-03-20 15:15:02 -0400, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> If we are evaluating this whole symlink / renaming thing, there could be
> arguments for a "pgsql" alias to psql (or vice versa), but I don't think
> "pg_sql" makes any sense and could be fairly confusing.

I don't care much about createdb etc, but I'm *strongly* against
renaming psql and/or adding symlinks. That's like 95% of all
interactions people have with postgres binaries, making that more
confusing would be an enterily unnecessary self own.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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