Just overheard one of my colleagues on the phone to one of our users
taking them through the process of moving their PGDATA to a partition
with space...
With the various paths, service names, config files and environment
variables PostgreSQL appears to have a multiple-personality
disorder... Is
Hi Lee
On Jan 16, 2004, at 8:09 PM, Lee Kindness wrote:
With the various paths, service names, config files and environment
variables PostgreSQL appears to have a multiple-personality
disorder... Is it:
postgresql (/etc/init.d/postgresql, postgresql.conf),
or postmaster (main postmaster
I too was a little confused when starting out with PostgreSQL as to
what the difference was between some of these things, but they need
different names so people can distinguish between them.
You make a good point, and I think that's easier for developers to work
with.
However, why do
On Jan 16, 2004, at 9:39 PM, Jeff Davis wrote:
I can't point to any OSS project that completely renames its parts. I
think a shortened version of the name makes sense (in this case
postgres works well, but so does pgsql), and other projects do
similar things. Psql for the client and postmaster for
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Jeff Davis wrote:
I can't point to any OSS project that completely renames its parts. I
think a shortened version of the name makes sense (in this case
postgres works well, but so does pgsql), and other projects do
similar things. Psql for the client and postmaster for
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
On Jan 16, 2004, at 9:39 PM, Jeff Davis wrote:
I can't point to any OSS project that completely renames its parts. I
think a shortened version of the name makes sense (in this case
postgres works well, but so does pgsql), and other projects
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
On Jan 16, 2004, at 9:39 PM, Jeff Davis wrote:
I can't point to any OSS project that completely renames its parts. I
think a shortened version of the name makes sense (in this case
postgres works well, but so does
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Thomas Swan wrote:
Perhaps postgresd, postgresqld, or pg_daemon might be a little more
intuitive?
I think at this late stage in the game (almost 10 years), changing could
be a bit difficult and confusing, no? :) I'd go with something like
pgsqld myself though, keeps it
Marc G. Fournier writes:
I think at this late stage in the game (almost 10 years), changing could
be a bit difficult and confusing, no? :) I'd go with something like
pgsqld myself though, keeps it short ... or we could go even shorter with
just pgd ...
But, I'm not, in any stretch
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Thomas Swan wrote:
Perhaps postgresd, postgresqld, or pg_daemon might be a little more
intuitive?
I think at this late stage in the game (almost 10 years), changing could
be a bit difficult and confusing, no? :) I'd go with something like
Thomas Swan wrote:
I just thought the anecdote of confusing it for an MTA was a little funny.
Funny yes, but unfortunatly all too common for newbies I think.
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Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
if you think about it, the postmaster is actually aptly named,
since it is the process that sorts out the incoming connections and
assigns them to backend processes ... just like the postmaster does
with your mail ...
Right, hence the witty pun :-)
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