On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 02:31:14PM +0100, Fred .Flintstone wrote:
Many of these are gone in the modern PostgreSQL, a few remain.
https://packages.ubuntu.com/disco/amd64/postgresql-client-11/filelist
/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/clusterdb
/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/createdb
/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/createuser
/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/dropdb
/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/dropuser
/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/pg_basebackup
/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/pg_dump
/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/pg_dumpall
/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/pg_isready
/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/pg_receivewal
/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/pg_recvlogical
/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/pg_restore
/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/psql
/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/reindexdb
/usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/vacuumdb
Can we rename clusterdb, reindexdb and vacuumdb to carry the pg_ prefix?
I think the consensus in this thread (and the previous ancient ones) is
that it's not worth it. It's one thing to introduce new commands with the
pg_ prefix, and it's a completely different thing to rename existing ones.
That has inherent costs, and as Tom pointed out the burden would fall on
people using PostgreSQL (and that's rather undesirable).
I personally don't see why having commands without pg_ prefix would be
an issue. Especially when placed in a separate directory, which eliminates
the possibility of conflict with other commands.
regards
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Tomas Vondra http://www.2ndQuadrant.com
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