Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

From: "Fred (dot)Flintstone" <eldmannen(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, 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>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)adjust(dot)com>, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>, 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: 2019-03-28 13:18:27
Message-ID: CAJgfmqXwGMe_y1gHmTYAQVwgTBavonW6yK4wwVyxRgh=DSaUTA@mail.gmail.com
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There would be no need to remove anything if we just renamed the
executable and created symlinks for them.

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 10:20 PM Peter Eisentraut
<peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On 2019-03-27 18:09, Tom Lane wrote:
> > My recollection of the discussion is that people argued that "postmaster"
> > might be taken to have something to do with an e-mail server, and
> > therefore we needed to stop using that name. The lack of either follow-on
> > complaints or follow-on action doesn't make me too well disposed to
> > what is essentially that same argument over again.
>
> The reason there was that the distinction was mostly useless and the
> different command-line option parsing was confusing. The name itself
> was confusing but not in conflict with anything.
>
> However, we do know that we are very bad at actually getting rid of
> deprecated things.
>
> How about we compromise in this thread and remove postmaster and leave
> everything else as is. ;-)
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
> PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

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