Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se> writes:
> On 3/27/19 3:26 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>> That is true, of course. But are there actual examples of such conflicts
>> in practice? I mean, are there tools/packages that provide commands with
>> a conflicting name? I'm not aware of any, and as was pointed before, we'd
>> have ~20 years of history on any new ones.

> That is a fair argument. Since we squatted those names back in the 
> mid-90s I think the risk of collision is low.

Right.  I think there is a fair argument to be made for user confusion
(not actual conflict) with respect to createuser and dropuser.  The
argument for renaming any of the other tools is much weaker, IMO.

            regards, tom lane