Thread: BUG #15796: [not a bug actually] vacuumlo - its name is confusing
The following bug has been logged on the website: Bug reference: 15796 Logged by: Timur Birsh Email address: taem@linukz.org PostgreSQL version: 11.2 Operating system: CentOS 7 Description: Hello, I think vacuumlo's name is confusing, especially for newbies. As we know, vacuumlo's purpose is to remove orphaned large objects, not to vacuum them. Is it possible to rename this utility? I am sorry, if it is already discussed. Thanks, Timur
On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 09:52:33AM +0000, PG Bug reporting form wrote: > I think vacuumlo's name is confusing, especially for newbies. As we know, > vacuumlo's purpose is to remove orphaned large objects, not to vacuum > them. > Is it possible to rename this utility? I am sorry, if it is already > discussed. The tool is old enough to vote (94bb87f from 1999), and holds this name since its birth. So a renaming may be more annoying than anything else I am afraid. -- Michael
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Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes: > On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 09:52:33AM +0000, PG Bug reporting form wrote: >> I think vacuumlo's name is confusing, especially for newbies. As we know, >> vacuumlo's purpose is to remove orphaned large objects, not to vacuum >> them. >> Is it possible to rename this utility? I am sorry, if it is already >> discussed. > The tool is old enough to vote (94bb87f from 1999), and holds this > name since its birth. So a renaming may be more annoying than > anything else I am afraid. Yeah, the backwards-compatibility hit seems rather disproportionate to the value of a change. Also, I'm not really convinced that a name change would be much of an improvement. Zapping unreferenced large objects is sort of like what VACUUM does, if you aren't too picky about details ... regards, tom lane