On 3/20/19 3:19 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2019-03-20 15:15:02 -0400, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>> If we are evaluating this whole symlink / renaming thing, there could be
>> arguments for a "pgsql" alias to psql (or vice versa), but I don't think
>> "pg_sql" makes any sense and could be fairly confusing.
>
> I don't care much about createdb etc, but I'm *strongly* against
> renaming psql and/or adding symlinks. That's like 95% of all
> interactions people have with postgres binaries, making that more
> confusing would be an enterily unnecessary self own.
Yeah I agree. The only one I would entertain is "pgsql" given enough
people refer to PostgreSQL as such, but note I use the term "entertain"
in a similar way to when I knowingly watch terrible movies.
Jonathan
