Re: pg_encoding not needed anymore

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >past.  I think createuser is much worse.  :-)
> >
> >  
> >
> Agreed. Actually, the big problem with the name "initdb" is that the 
> name is misleading, and newbies often get confused by it. You are 
> preparing a data store for many databases, not a single database.  But I 
> think it is far too sanctified by history to change now, just as Ken 
> Thompson now wishes he had put an 'e' on the end of 'creat' but can't go 
> back and fix it. Maybe we should think about a symlink/hardlink to use a 
> better name.

Yea, initcluster would have been better, but cluster confuses with
CLUSTER, just like database schema confuses with CREATE SCHEMA.

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