Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

2019-03-20 Thread Euler Taveira
Em qua, 20 de mar de 2019 às 14:22, Fred .Flintstone escreveu: > > Even just creating symlinks would be a welcome change. > So the real binary is pg_foo and foo is a symoblic link that points to pg_foo. > Then at least I can type pg_ and use tab auto-completion to find > everything related to

Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

2019-03-20 Thread Euler Taveira
Em qua, 20 de mar de 2019 às 11:39, Tatsuo Ishii escreveu: > > +1. As one of third party PostgreSQL tool developers, I am afraid > changing names of PostgreSQL commands would give us lots of pain: for > example checking PostgreSQL version to decide to use command "foo" not > "pg_foo". > createdb,

Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

2019-03-20 Thread Fred .Flintstone
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 3:19 PM Tom Lane wrote: > If we didn't pull the trigger twenty years ago, nor ten years ago, > we're not likely to do so now. Yeah, it's a mess and we'd certainly > do it differently if we were starting from scratch, but we're not > starting from scratch. There are

Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

2019-03-20 Thread Tom Lane
Chris Travers writes: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 11:06 AM Andreas Karlsson wrote: >> On 3/19/19 11:19 AM, Fred .Flintstone wrote: >>> 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

Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

2019-03-20 Thread Chris Howard
. The wrapper script addition doesn't mean executing the commands directly without the wrapper won't be possible. So one doesn't exclude the other. It would be a welcome addition. On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 11:05 AM Andreas Karlsson wrote: On 3/19/19 11:19 AM, Fred .Flintstone wrote: PostgreSQL poll

Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

2019-03-20 Thread Fred .Flintstone
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 > &

Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

2019-03-20 Thread Chris Travers
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 11:06 AM Andreas Karlsson wrote: > 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&q

Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

2019-03-20 Thread Andreas Karlsson
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_created

PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

2019-03-20 Thread Fred .Flintstone
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

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