On Thursday, March 28, 2019, Fred .Flintstone <eldman...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There would be no need to remove anything if we just renamed the > executable and created symlinks for them. Will there still be man pages for both commands? man pg_createuser man createuser ? > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 10:20 PM Peter Eisentraut > <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > > > > On 2019-03-27 18:09, Tom Lane wrote: > > > My recollection of the discussion is that people argued that > "postmaster" > > > might be taken to have something to do with an e-mail server, and > > > therefore we needed to stop using that name. The lack of either > follow-on > > > complaints or follow-on action doesn't make me too well disposed to > > > what is essentially that same argument over again. > > > > The reason there was that the distinction was mostly useless and the > > different command-line option parsing was confusing. The name itself > > was confusing but not in conflict with anything. > > > > However, we do know that we are very bad at actually getting rid of > > deprecated things. > > > > How about we compromise in this thread and remove postmaster and leave > > everything else as is. ;-) > > > > -- > > Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ > > PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services > > >
