On 22/03/19 3:05 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> writes: >> I would be curious to hear the reason why such tool names have been >> chosen from the start. The tools have been switched to C in 9e0ab71 >> from 2003, have been introduced by Peter Eisentraut as of 240e4c9 from >> 1999, and I cannot spot the thread from the time where this was >> discussed. > createuser, at least, dates back to Berkeley days: my copy of the > PG v4r2 tarball contains a "src/bin/createuser/createuser.sh" file > dated 1994-03-19. (The 1999 commit you mention just moved the > functionality around; it was there before.) So I imagine the answer > is that nobody at the time thought of fitting these scripts into a > larger ecosystem.
FWIW the whole set is there in version 6.4.2: markir@vedavec:/download/postgres/src/postgresql-6.4.2/src/bin$ ls -l total 72 drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 cleardbdir drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 createdb drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 createuser drwxr-sr-x 2 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 CVS drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 destroydb drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 destroyuser drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 initdb drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 initlocation drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 ipcclean -rw-r--r-- 1 markir adm 795 Dec 19 1998 Makefile drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 pgaccess drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 pg_dump drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 pg_encoding drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 pg_id drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 pg_passwd drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 pgtclsh drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 pg_version drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 psql -- Mark
