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

From Tino Wildenhain
Subject Re: Survey: renaming/removing script binaries (createdb, createuser...)
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Msg-id 47EF7279.6000500@wildenhain.de
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In response to Re: Survey: renaming/removing script binaries (createdb, createuser...)  (Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>)
Responses Re: Survey: renaming/removing script binaries (createdb, createuser...)  (Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>)
Re: Survey: renaming/removing script binaries (createdb, createuser...)  (Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>)
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Chris Browne wrote:
...
>
> pg_ctl is really more like the scripts in /etc/init.d; whatever it
> "ought" to be called instead, I don't think "safe_postgresqld" is
> it...

eek. where is that save_ something coming from? Apache uses
apachectl which seems pretty forward - pg_ctl seems to be in
the same spirit. Naming it pgctl could simplify typing and
making it a wrapper (similar to zopectl :-) with
start/stop/status/debug/run ... could have some benefit.

Regards
Tino

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