| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | M(dot)Boekhold(at)et(dot)tudelft(dot)nl |
| Cc: | Bruce Tong <zztong(at)laxmi(dot)ev(dot)net>, James Olin Oden <joden(at)lee(dot)k12(dot)nc(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-general <pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: SGVLLUG Oracle and Informix on Linux] |
| Date: | 1998-07-24 01:56:19 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.3.96.980723225509.261G-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
> > Exactly. I'm learning SQL and PostgreSQL at the same time and it is
> > sometimes difficult for me to correctly assess what belongs with each. My
> > recent GRANT/REVOKE question was like this. I didn't think for a minute
> > that would be handled by SQL since databases were created and destroyed by
> > PostgreSQL utilities.
>
> In fact, they are handled by SQL: CREATE DATABASE and DROP DATABASE. The
> createdb and destroydb tools just call these SQL statements....
Here's an odd thought:
Let's remove the "I don't want to think" utilities like
{create,destroy}{db,user} and force DBA's to actually use the *proper*
functions.
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
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