Hello, at the very least my Ubuntu Cosmic has createdb, createuser and createlang in user's space, and I had at least two cases when people were trying to use createuser to create a new OS user.
I would prefer them having pg_ prefix to have less confusion. On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 4:51 PM Tomas Vondra <tomas.von...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- > Tomas Vondra http://www.2ndQuadrant.com > PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services > > > > -- Darafei Praliaskouski Support me: http://patreon.com/komzpa
