On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 08:12:22PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 05:52:39PM -0000, Andrew Hammond wrote: > > On Jun 5, 9:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alvaro Herrera) wrote: > > > Zdenek Kotala wrote: > > > > Tom Lane wrote: > > > > >Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > >>Is this a TODO? > > > > > > > >I don't think so; there is no demand from anybody but Zdenek to remove > > > > >those programs. Has it ever even come up before? > > > > > > Personally I found really strange to have "createuser" and "createdb" > > > shipped by Postgres when I started using it. I just didn't complain. > > > > +1. Given the prevalence of the pg_foo convention, those names are > > clunky. So is initdb. I'm less creative than Zdenek, so I'd suggest > > simply renaming to pg_createuser and friends with the same command > > line options as the originals. Have the binaries check $0 and emit a > > warning about using the deprecated name to STDERR if called by a name > > that doesn't have the pg_ prefix. Default to symlinking the old names > > for backwards compatibility until 9.0. > > +1
+1 It's a lot easier just to prefix the names than to do something "clever." Cheers, D -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote! Consider donating to PostgreSQL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
