Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com
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Subject: Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system
Date: 2019-03-20 23:41:32
Message-ID: 20190321.084132.2186284141219540889.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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> I don't really understand what issue are we trying to solve here.
>
> Can someone describe a scenario where this (name of the binary not
> clearly indicating it's related postgres) causes issues in practice? On
> my system, there are ~1400 binaries in /usr/bin, and for the vast
> majority of them it's rather unclear where do they come from.
>
> But it's not really an issue, because we have tools to do that
>
> 1) man
>
> 2) -h/--help
>
> 3) rpm -qf $file (and similarly for other packagers)
>
> 4) set --prefix to install binaries so separate directory (which some
> distros already do anyway)
>
> So to me this seems like a fairly invasive change (potentially breaking
> quite a few scripts/tools) just to address a minor inconvenience.

+1.

Best regards,
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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