Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com
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Subject: Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system
Date: 2019-04-11 00:09:15
Message-ID: 20190411.090915.1663658407812656721.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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>>> On 2019-03-29 20:32, Joe Conway wrote:
>>>> pg_util <command> <options>
>>>
>>> How is that better than just renaming to pg_$oldname?
>>
>> As I already said in up thread:
>>
>>> This way, we would be free from the command name conflict problem
>
> Well, whatever we do -- if anything -- we would certainly need to keep
> the old names around for a while somehow. So this doesn't really make
> that issue go away.

Another complain was, it's hard to remember the tool names for novice
users. I think this way would solve the problem.

I agree that command name conflicting problem will not be solved by
the idea. However I do not believe there's name conflicting problem in
the first place. So I am happy to keep the old names as they are.

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