Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > On 2019-Mar-27, Tomas Vondra wrote: >> 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 thought the consensus was to rename them, and install symlinks to the > old names. The question is what's the endgame. We haven't actually fixed the complained-of confusion problem unless we eventually remove createuser and dropuser under those names. Are we prepared to force script breakage of that sort, even over a multi-year deprecation cycle? (As a comparison point, I note that we still haven't removed the "postmaster" symlink, though it's been deprecated for at least a dozen years.) regards, tom lane