FYI, the patch author and survey requestor has withdrawn the patch with the following comment:
> I think we can reject this patch. I don't process yet output from survey > on general, but it seems that more users prefer pg_ prefix, but idea of > "pgc" command seems to be better. I think it is good idea for 9.0 release. The TODO item has been removed as well: * Prefix command-line utilities like createuser with 'pg_' http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-06/msg00025.php --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zdenek Kotala wrote: > Tom Lane napsal(a): > > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Where are we on this? Tom thinks we don't want this. TODO has: > >> * Prefix command-line utilities like createuser with 'pg_' > >> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-06/msg00025.php > > > >> I think we need to make a decision. > > > > Well, I don't have any particular objection to adding pg_ prefixes > > as alternate names for the existing scripts. However, it's not clear > > what is the point unless we have the intention to remove the old names > > at some time in the foreseeable future. And the consensus of the > > previous thread on -patches seemed to be that nobody except Zdenek > > was very eager to do that. > > Yeah, I have to had two reason for this patch. First is my personal, because > I > don't like these names since 1999. And second is that Solaris architects do > not > like these names. Especially createdb and createuser. It could clash with > some > system utility. > > > In any case, there is no value in discussing this further on -patches > > since the readers of this list already weighed in. If you want to > > make a decision then it needs to be made on -hackers or -general. > > I think both are important (maybe general is more important). Maybe we can > put > also a survey on webpage. > > On other side. The question is also if we really still need these utilities? > If > you look on them there are missing features. E.g vacuumdb does not allow make > VACUUM FREEZ or set some modern version of vacuum parameters. There is not > createtablespace command and so on... > > Zdenek -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list (pgsql-patches@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches