Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

From: Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>
To: Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)adjust(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, "Fred (dot)Flintstone" <eldmannen(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Mark Kirkwood <mark(dot)kirkwood(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system
Date: 2019-04-12 15:19:20
Message-ID: 4bc92d6c-982a-a2f6-2caa-68365c184cca@proxel.se
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On 4/12/19 5:14 PM, Chris Travers wrote:
> 1. naming things is surprisingly hard.  How sure are we that we can do
> this right?  Can we come up with a correct name for initdb?  Maybe
> pg_createcluster?

The Debian packagers already use pg_createcluster for their script which
wraps initdb, and while pg_initdb is a bit misleading (it creates a
cluster rather than a database) it is not that bad.

Andreas

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