Re: Survey: renaming/removing script binaries (createdb, createuser...) - Mailing list pgsql-general

Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com> writes:
> On Mar 26, 2008, at 10:46 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Steve Atkins wrote:
>>> "pg_ctl" to "safe_postgresqld",
>>
>> Now that's plain weird.

> Yes, it is. But if the goal is to make it more approachable for people
> who are familiar with mysql, but not prepared to read postgresql
> documentation it's also the obvious change to make.

If pg_ctl actually had any functional correspondence to safe_mysqld,
then maybe that would be a sane suggestion.  But it doesn't.

            regards, tom lane