Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 5:51 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com>
> wrote:
>> I like this idea so much that I already proposed it in the past[1], so +1.
>>
>> [1] https://postgr.es/m/20160826202911.GA320593@alvherre.pgsql
> Hey, look at that. I think I had some vague recollection of a prior
> proposal, but I couldn't remember exactly who or exactly what had been
> proposed. I do think that pg_ctl is too long a prefix, though. People
> can get used to typing 'pg createdb' instead of 'createdb' but 'pg_ctl
> createdb' seems like too much. At least, it would very very quickly
> cause me to install aliases.
Yeah, I'd be happier with "pg" than "pg_ctl" as well. But it's so
short that I wonder if some other software has already adopted it.
regards, tom lane
