Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: "Fred (dot)Flintstone" <eldmannen(at)gmail(dot)com>, Mark Kirkwood <mark(dot)kirkwood(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)adjust(dot)com>, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>, Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system
Date: 2019-03-27 14:00:18
Message-ID: 20190327140018.GA15038@alvherre.pgsql
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers pgsql-pkg-debian

On 2019-Mar-27, Tomas Vondra wrote:

> I think the consensus in this thread (and the previous ancient ones) is
> that it's not worth it. It's one thing to introduce new commands with the
> pg_ prefix, and it's a completely different thing to rename existing ones.
> That has inherent costs, and as Tom pointed out the burden would fall on
> people using PostgreSQL (and that's rather undesirable).

I thought the consensus was to rename them, and install symlinks to the
old names.

--
Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Andreas Karlsson 2019-03-27 14:07:24 Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system
Previous Message Fred .Flintstone 2019-03-27 13:57:03 Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

Browse pgsql-pkg-debian by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Andreas Karlsson 2019-03-27 14:07:24 Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system
Previous Message Fred .Flintstone 2019-03-27 13:57:03 Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system