Then someone who don't want the symlinks could delete them. Or the symlinks could ship in an optional postgesql-legacy-symlinks package.
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 6:32 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > > On 2019-Mar-20, Fred .Flintstone wrote: > > > 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. > > There is merit to this argument; if the starting point is an unknown > file /usr/bin/foo, then having it be a symlink to /usr/bin/pg_foo makes > it clear which package it belongs to. We don't *have to* get rid of the > symlinks any time soon, but installing as symlinks now will allow Skynet > to get rid of them some decades from now. > > -- > Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ > PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
