> Hey, look at that. I think I had some vague recollection of a prior > proposal, but I couldn't remember exactly who or exactly what had been > proposed. I do think that pg_ctl is too long a prefix, though. People > can get used to typing 'pg createdb' instead of 'createdb' but 'pg_ctl > createdb' seems like too much. At least, it would very very quickly > cause me to install aliases.
Yeah, I'd be happier with "pg" than "pg_ctl" as well. But it's so short that I wonder if some other software has already adopted it.
So it's been removed from posix, but not unlikely to be around. For example, I see it on a server with Debian 9 (Stretch) or Ubuntu 16.04 which is still well in support (but not on a RedHat from the same era).
