Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

On 3/21/19 1:49 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 08:41:32AM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>>> Can someone describe a scenario where this (name of the binary not
>>> clearly indicating it's related postgres) causes issues in practice? On
>>> my system, there are ~1400 binaries in /usr/bin, and for the vast
>>> majority of them it's rather unclear where do they come from.
> 
> Naming conflict because our binary names are too generic?  createdb
> could for example be applied to any database, and not only Postgres.
> (I have 1600 entries in /usr/bin on a Debian installation.)
> 

Maybe. Do we actually know about such cases? Also, isn't setting
--prefix a suitable solution? I mean, it's what we/packagers do to
support installing multiple Pg versions (in which case it'll conflict no
matter how we rename stuff) anyway.


regards

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