From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Brook Milligan <brook@biology.nmsu.edu>
Cc: lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
Cc: ser@perio.unlp.edu.ar
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [INTERFACES] Next release is 7.0(?)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:04:56 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <199910111704.NAA05891@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199910111656.KAA17620@biology.nmsu.edu>
> > I hope we don't have a consensus on this. Long commands with
> > underscores in them are certainly another sign of the coming
> > apocalypse ;)
>
> But if we keep symlinks to the existing names, is that OK?
>
> Isn't the point to avoid naming conflicts. Symlinks won't help that,
> surely.
>
> I agree; underscores are a pain. If you must go this direction, I
> suggest hyphens (-).
You could make the actual command pg_createuser, and make a symlink of
createuser, but allow the symlink creation to fail. Best of both
worlds, I think. I vote for underscore. That's what I normally use.
Dashes look too much like command arguments.
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