Re: pg_encoding not needed anymore

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > >past. I think createuser is much worse. :-)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Agreed. Actually, the big problem with the name "initdb" is that the
> > name is misleading, and newbies often get confused by it. You are
> > preparing a data store for many databases, not a single database. But I
> > think it is far too sanctified by history to change now, just as Ken
> > Thompson now wishes he had put an 'e' on the end of 'creat' but can't go
> > back and fix it. Maybe we should think about a symlink/hardlink to use a
> > better name.
>
> Yea, initcluster would have been better, but cluster confuses with
> CLUSTER, just like database schema confuses with CREATE SCHEMA.

Maybe initpg or pg_init or something like that?