| From: | "Fred (dot)Flintstone" <eldmannen(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)adjust(dot)com>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system |
| Date: | 2019-03-20 15:30:33 |
| Message-ID: | CAJgfmqVcw_jLDPJC=ktgW=K9iTvMyF=N+x3ym1eXLEZWZkkSkg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 3:19 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> If we didn't pull the trigger twenty years ago, nor ten years ago,
> we're not likely to do so now. Yeah, it's a mess and we'd certainly
> do it differently if we were starting from scratch, but we're not
> starting from scratch. There are decades worth of scripts out there
> that know these program names, most of them not under our control.
>
> Every time this has been looked at, we've concluded that the
> distributed costs of getting rid of these program names would exceed
> the value; and that tradeoff gets worse, not better, as more years
> go by. I don't foresee it happening.
Even just creating symlinks would be a welcome change.
So the real binary is pg_foo and foo is a symoblic link that points to pg_foo.
Then at least I can type pg_<tab> and use tab auto-completion to find
everything related to PostgreSQL.
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