On Friday, April 12, 2019 3:20 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 2019-Apr-12, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: > > > There are many good reasons for the changes proposed in this thread, but I'm > > not sure if discoverability is one. Relying on autocompleting a filename to > > figure out existing tooling for database maintenance and DBA type operations > > seems like a fragile usecase. > > If commandline discoverability is of importance, providing a summary of the > > tools in "man postgresql" seems like a better option. > > The first comment in the LWN article: > "It's broken and obviously a bad idea but we've been doing it for so long we > shouldn't attempt to fix it" > > IMO the future is longer than the past, and has more users, so let's do > it right instead of perpetuating the mistakes. > > ... unless you think PostgreSQL is going to become irrelevant before > 2050. Not at all, and as I said there are many good reasons for doing this. I just don't think "discoverability" is the driver, since I consider that a different thing from ease of use and avoid confusion with system tools etc (my reading of that word is "finding something new", not "how did I spell that tool again"). cheers ./daniel
