* Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> writes: > > * Alvaro Herrera (alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com) wrote: > >> If we were choosing those names nowadays, would we choose CREATEDB at > >> all in the first place? I think we'd go for something more verbose, > >> probably CREATE_DATABASE. (CREATEROLE is not as old as CREATEDB, but my > >> bet is that it was modelled after CREATEUSER without considering the > >> whole readability topic too much.) > >> > >> Anyway it doesn't seem to me that consistency with lack of separators in > >> those very old names should be our guiding principle here. > > > So you'd advocate EXCLUSIVE_BACKUP and NOEXCLUSIVE_BACKUP? Or > > NO_EXCLUSIVE_BACKUP? Or..? If this was a green field, I think we might > > actually use spaces instead, but I'm really not sure we want to go > > through and redo everything that way at this point.. We'd end up > > breaking a lot of scripts that currently work today and I'm really not > > convinced it's better enough to justify that. > > FWIW, I agree with Alvaro, and I'd go with e.g. NO_EXCLUSIVE_BACKUP.
Ok, works for me. Will update (including tab completion) and send out
for review.
Thanks!
Stephen
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