Re: Script binaries renaming

Tom Lane napsal(a):
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> Another option then might be to simply deprecate their use, and
>> eventually get rid of them, instead of renaming them?
>
> I'd like to get rid of ipcclean immediately; it hasn't had any usefulness
> in years.

+1

> The issue is larger than the proposed patch addresses, though.
> I see the following stuff installed in .../bin by CVS HEAD:
>
> clusterdb initdb pg_resetxlog postmaster
> createdb ipcclean pg_restore psql
> createlang oid2name pg_standby reindexdb
> createuser pg_config pgbench vacuumdb
> dropdb pg_controldata pltcl_delmod vacuumlo
> droplang pg_ctl pltcl_listmod
> dropuser pg_dump pltcl_loadmod
> ecpg pg_dumpall postgres
>
> There's an awful lot of names here that don't have any obvious
> connection to Postgres ...

Why we have pg_dump and pg_dumpall? Or I think pg_resetxlog has same output like
pg_controldata. I think we can merge these commands.

Zdenek