Re: Command tags in create/drop scripts

Tom Lane napsal(a):
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> Zdenek Kotala wrote:
>>>>> And what about replace all "scripts" by one command e.g pg_cmd with 
>>>>> following interface:
> 
>> Well, I don't think rolling up the miscellaneous commands into a single 
>> binary with behaviour dependent on arg[0] is a bad idea.
> 
> I don't think that responds to Zdenek's complaint though.  He's unhappy
> about polluting /usr/bin with commands like "createuser" --- which is
> not an unreasonable gripe.  AFAICS it doesn't help if "createuser"
> is a link to a single executable rather than a file of its own.

Yes, It was one idea (after midnight :-) how to keep backward 
compatibility for next few releases, but better solution is keep old 
binaries for couple of release cycles.

> But in the light of backwards-compatibility requirements, I can't see us
> removing "createuser" from the distribution ... not in 8.4, nor several
> releases thereafter.

I agree, I only want to start discussion about new command which will 
replace old binaries. Old binaries will be marked as obsolete and they 
will be removed e.g. in 9.0. Until we do not have the new command we can 
not start thinking about remove old one. I think we can have new command 
ready for 8.4.

    Zdenek