From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199910112051.QAA05209@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [INTERFACES] Next release is 7.0(?)
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	"Oct 11, 1999 05:31:36 pm"
To: "Sergio A. Kessler" <ser@perio.unlp.edu.ar>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 16:51:46 -0400 (EDT)
CC: Brook Milligan <brook@biology.nmsu.edu>, lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu,
	pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org, pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
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> my suggestion was:
> in 7.0: provide symlinks for backward compatibility and make big
> warnings 'don't use createuser, etc. they are deprecated'
> all over the place ...
> in 7.1: remove the symlinks.
> 
> > I agree; underscores are a pain.  If you must go this direction, I
> > suggest hyphens (-).
> 
> yup, but maybe (-) can rise problems in some filesystems ...
> (I certainly don't know)
> and more importantly you have then to rename pg_dump and pg_dumpall
> wich is the more heavily used command in scripts ...
> my idea was to leave this commands untouched.
> 
> as for longnames that Thomas doesn't like (wich I don't agree because
> my idea for upgrading scripts is just: 'prepend a pg_ to the commands')
> what about pg_adduser, pg_deluser, pg_adddb, etc ?  ;)

That's a compromise.  The destroy* entries are from the old quel days. 
Of course, that would make pg_deluser into pg_dropuser, but adddb would
be createdb, and we are back were we started.  :-)

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