Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system
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Msg-id 20190327140018.GA15038@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system  (Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system
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On 2019-Mar-27, Tomas Vondra wrote:

> I think the consensus in this thread (and the previous ancient ones) is
> that it's not worth it. It's one thing to introduce new commands with the
> pg_ prefix, and it's a completely different thing to rename existing ones.
> That has inherent costs, and as Tom pointed out the burden would fall on
> people using PostgreSQL (and that's rather undesirable).

I thought the consensus was to rename them, and install symlinks to the
old names.

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