From: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
To: Theo Kramer <theo@flame.co.za>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: HISTORY for 6.5.2
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 16:27:08 -0400
Message-ID: <99091816355500.00581@lowen.wgcr.org> (raw)
References: <37E1E580.A7C66E57@flame.co.za>
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Theo Kramer wrote:
> Dont know if it's been raised before, but the postgres utilities are installed
> into /usr/bin from the rpm. Problem with this is the naming of some of the
> utilities eg.createuser, destroyuser. These could be confused with the
> 'standard' user utilities such as useradd, userdel etc. How about pre-pending
> a 'pg' to all postgres utilities so that these become pgcreateuser,
> pgdestroyuser etc.?
This is an interesting idea.
What is also interesting is that if you have a traditional postgresql
installation (/usr/local/pgsql), you can get even wierder results if /usr/bin
contains one createuser and /usr/local/pgsql/bin contains another. Depending
upon your PATH, you could get unwanted results in a hurry.
So, it IS an interesting thought -- while it would initially create a good deal
of confusion, what is the consensus of the hackers on this issue?? Prepending
"pg_" to all postgresql commands seems to me to be a good idea (after all, we
already hav pg_dump, pg_dumpall, pg_upgrade, etc.).
Thoughts??
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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