Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

From: "Fred (dot)Flintstone" <eldmannen(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>
Cc: Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)adjust(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, 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 18:56:35
Message-ID: CAJgfmqV9_OcawVG8NMPFZveN8Y5tRfPRkXWakVO0us86qAhjkA@mail.gmail.com
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So there is no regression potential.

When and who can send the patch to rename the programs to carry the
pg_ prefixes, and create symlinks from the old names?

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 5:19 PM Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se> wrote:
>
> 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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