| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> |
| Cc: | 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>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br, rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com, "Fred (dot)Flintstone" <eldmannen(at)gmail(dot)com>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system |
| Date: | 2019-03-22 02:05:46 |
| Message-ID: | 31754.1553220346@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> writes:
> I would be curious to hear the reason why such tool names have been
> chosen from the start. The tools have been switched to C in 9e0ab71
> from 2003, have been introduced by Peter Eisentraut as of 240e4c9 from
> 1999, and I cannot spot the thread from the time where this was
> discussed.
createuser, at least, dates back to Berkeley days: my copy of the
PG v4r2 tarball contains a "src/bin/createuser/createuser.sh" file
dated 1994-03-19. (The 1999 commit you mention just moved the
functionality around; it was there before.) So I imagine the answer
is that nobody at the time thought of fitting these scripts into a
larger ecosystem.
regards, tom lane
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