On Jun 5, 9:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alvaro Herrera) wrote: > Zdenek Kotala wrote: > > Tom Lane wrote: > > >Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>Is this a TODO? > > > >I don't think so; there is no demand from anybody but Zdenek to remove > > >those programs. Has it ever even come up before? > > Personally I found really strange to have "createuser" and "createdb" > shipped by Postgres when I started using it. I just didn't complain.
+1. Given the prevalence of the pg_foo convention, those names are clunky. So is initdb. I'm less creative than Zdenek, so I'd suggest simply renaming to pg_createuser and friends with the same command line options as the originals. Have the binaries check $0 and emit a warning about using the deprecated name to STDERR if called by a name that doesn't have the pg_ prefix. Default to symlinking the old names for backwards compatibility until 9.0. Andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
