On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 4:58 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 5:51 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> > wrote: > >> I like this idea so much that I already proposed it in the past[1], so > +1. > >> > >> [1] https://postgr.es/m/20160826202911.GA320593@alvherre.pgsql > > > Hey, look at that. I think I had some vague recollection of a prior > > proposal, but I couldn't remember exactly who or exactly what had been > > proposed. I do think that pg_ctl is too long a prefix, though. People > > can get used to typing 'pg createdb' instead of 'createdb' but 'pg_ctl > > createdb' seems like too much. At least, it would very very quickly > > cause me to install aliases. > > Yeah, I'd be happier with "pg" than "pg_ctl" as well. But it's so > short that I wonder if some other software has already adopted it. >
There's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pg_(Unix). So it's been removed from posix, but not unlikely to be around. For example, I see it on a server with Debian 9 (Stretch) or Ubuntu 16.04 which is still well in support (but not on a RedHat from the same era). -- Magnus Hagander Me: https://www.hagander.net/ <http://www.hagander.net/> Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/ <http://www.redpill-linpro.com/>
