Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
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Subject: Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system
Date: 2019-03-29 15:48:47
Message-ID: 45ed5529-ef45-024a-9ec5-acf442501ce7@joeconway.com
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On 3/29/19 11:44 AM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> On Friday, March 29, 2019 4:41 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
>> Christoph Berg myon(at)debian(dot)org writes:
>>
>> > What might possibly make sense is to add options to psql to
>> > facilitate common tasks:
>>
>> > psql --createdb foo
>> > psql --createuser bar --superuser
>> > psql --reindex foo
>>
>> That's a thought. Or perhaps better, allow pg_ctl to grow new
>> subcommands for those tasks?
>
> +1 on using pg_ctl rather than psql, should we go down this path.

Agreed -- another +1 here

Joe

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