| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> |
| Cc: | "Fred (dot)Flintstone" <eldmannen(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Mark Kirkwood <mark(dot)kirkwood(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)adjust(dot)com>, 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: | 2019-04-12 13:20:14 |
| Message-ID: | 20190412132014.GA6802@alvherre.pgsql |
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On 2019-Apr-12, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> There are many good reasons for the changes proposed in this thread, but I'm
> not sure if discoverability is one. Relying on autocompleting a filename to
> figure out existing tooling for database maintenance and DBA type operations
> seems like a fragile usecase.
>
> If commandline discoverability is of importance, providing a summary of the
> tools in "man postgresql" seems like a better option.
The first comment in the LWN article:
"It's broken and obviously a bad idea but we've been doing it for so long we
shouldn't attempt to fix it"
IMO the future is longer than the past, and has more users, so let's do
it right instead of perpetuating the mistakes.
... unless you think PostgreSQL is going to become irrelevant before
2050.
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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
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