On Saturday, June 23, 2012, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > About the new --maintenance-db options: > > Why was this option not added to createuser and dropuser? In the > original discussion[0] they were mentioned, but it apparently never made > it into the code. > > I find the name to be unfortunate. For example, I think of running > vacuum as "maintenance". So running vacuumdb --maintenance-db=X would > imply that the vacuum maintenance is done on X. In fact, the whole > point of this option is to find out where the maintenance is to be run, > not to run the maintenance. Maybe something like --initial-db would be > better? >
I'm not saying it's the best name, but I suspect the origin is pgAdmin which has used 'Maintenance DB' for 10+ years. There's likely a certain amount of familiarity with the term amonst pgAdmin users. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
