From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
Cc: | Andrew Hammond <andrew(dot)george(dot)hammond(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Command tags in create/drop scripts |
Date: | 2007-06-09 05:42:44 |
Message-ID: | 466A3DD4.3000403@commandprompt.com |
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 05:52:39PM -0000, Andrew Hammond wrote:
>> On Jun 5, 9:19 am, alvhe(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)commandprompt(dot)com (Alvaro Herrera) wrote:
>>> Zdenek Kotala wrote:
>>>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>>>> Bruce Momjian <b(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
>>>>>> Is this a TODO?
>>>>> I don't think so; there is no demand from anybody but Zdenek to remove
>>>>> those programs. Has it ever even come up before?
>>> Personally I found really strange to have "createuser" and "createdb"
>>> shipped by Postgres when I started using it. I just didn't complain.
>> +1. Given the prevalence of the pg_foo convention, those names are
>> clunky. So is initdb. I'm less creative than Zdenek, so I'd suggest
>> simply renaming to pg_createuser and friends with the same command
>> line options as the originals. Have the binaries check $0 and emit a
>> warning about using the deprecated name to STDERR if called by a name
>> that doesn't have the pg_ prefix. Default to symlinking the old names
>> for backwards compatibility until 9.0.
>
> +1
+1
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