Michael Glaesemann wrote:
>
> On Jul 6, 2007, at 5:53 , Dave Page wrote:
>
>> On Fri, July 6, 2007 8:51 am, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> Am Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007 17:04 schrieb Zdenek Kotala:
>>>> I attach complete patch which renames following binaries
>>>>
>>>> createdb createlang createuser dropdb droplang dropuser clusterdb
>>>> vacuumdb reindexdb
>>>
>>> I just want to say I dislike this idea.
>>
>> This is almost as bad as Magnus agreeing with JD (!), but I agree with
>> Peter :-). After years of typing the current names, changing them does
>> seem somewhat annoying. Worse yet, pg_* is just awkward to type.
>
> While the change might be awkward, the names of these binaries really
> should be namespaced in some way. The current just too generic to be
> throwing into a bin/ directory in my opinion.
Of course I realize that I voted for the idea in the first place. I
voted for it for consistency more than anything but as I think about it,
it really is clunky and doesn't serve any real purpose.
Joshua D. Drake
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