From: | Mark Kirkwood <mark(dot)kirkwood(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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 02:13:45 |
Message-ID: | 3edd2644-eaf2-41e0-aa7a-92786d25b29c@catalyst.net.nz |
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On 22/03/19 3:05 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.
FWIW the whole set is there in version 6.4.2:
markir(at)vedavec:/download/postgres/src/postgresql-6.4.2/src/bin$ ls -l
total 72
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 cleardbdir
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 createdb
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 createuser
drwxr-sr-x 2 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 CVS
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 destroydb
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 destroyuser
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 initdb
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 initlocation
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 ipcclean
-rw-r--r-- 1 markir adm 795 Dec 19 1998 Makefile
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 pgaccess
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 pg_dump
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 pg_encoding
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 pg_id
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 pg_passwd
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 pgtclsh
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 pg_version
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 psql
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Mark
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