From: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> |
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To: | PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Survey: renaming/removing script binaries (createdb, createuser...) |
Date: | 2008-03-26 23:14:58 |
Message-ID: | Pine.GSO.4.64.0803261842080.2012@westnet.com |
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Steve Atkins wrote:
> These were mostly rhetorical suggestions. Not serious in themselves,
> but hoping to make people come clean about why name changes of
> binaries might be needed.
So far I haven't seen anyone besides Zdenek gives a reason why this is
worth the trouble, and that reason has been "Sun's engineers don't like
it". Now, that alone would be enough to make it a #1 priority if, say,
Sun had just given the PostgreSQL community a billion dollars or
something...
I know I'd be curious to hear what the actual namespace clash concerns are
here, because all this talk worrying about things like "vacuumdb" seems a
bit silly to me--I'm not feeling that one as a likely problem one day.
The create* set are the only examples that seem obviously misleading and
problematic to me. I've had my own brain fog moments where I typed
createuser when I meant useradd, and vice-versa.
Oh, and everybody should give up on "pg" as a candidate for the universal
command, those letters have been claimed in UNIX land many years ago.
You might as well want "ls". "pgsql" or "pgcmd" might work; "pgc" is the
shortest thing I can think of that would both make sense (as a short "pg
command") and that isn't used anywhere.
And if anybody suggests putting a "_" in something I have to type all the
time, I will stick my fingers in my ears and start yelling until they
stop. Bad enough I have to type pg_ctl a few times every day now.
--
* Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
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