On 3/19/19 11:19 AM, Fred .Flintstone wrote:
PostgreSQL pollutes the file system with lots of binaries that it is
not obvious that they belong to PostgreSQL.

Such as "/usr/bin/createdb", etc.

It would be better if these files were renamed to be prefixed with
pg_, such as pg_createdb.
Or even better postgresql-createdb then be reachable by through a
"postgresql" wrapper script.

Hi,

This topic has been discussed before e.g. in 2008 in https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/47EA5CC0.8040102%40sun.com and also more recently but I cannot find it in the archives right now.

I am personally in favor of renaming e.g. createdb to pg_createdb, since it is not obvious that createdb belongs to PostgreSQL when reading a script or looking in /usr/bin, but we would need a some kind of deprecation cycle here or we would suddenly break tons of people's scripts.

And as for the git-like solution with a wrapper script, that seems to be the modern way to do things but would be an even larger breakage and I am not convinced the advantage would be worth it especially since our executables are not as closely related and consistent as for example git's.

Andreas

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