Re: [HACKERS] Removing binaries (was: createlang/droplang deprecated)

On 03/18/2017 01:12 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net <mailto:magnus@hagander.net>> writes:
>>> 2017-03-18 14:00 GMT+01:00 Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com
<mailto:peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>>:

> createuser, dropuser - definitely pollutes the namespace, people do
> sometimes try them for the wrong thing. Unlike the db ones they do add
> value though -- I don't think we have a psql way of in a single command
> doing what --pwprompt on createuser does, do we? But given that we are
> in the process of breaking a lot of other scripts for 10, perhaps we
> should rename it to pg_createuser?

We have one chance in the near future to shake things up, break things 
for the better and lose a lot of long time issues. Making things 
consistent and declarative (pg_ for example) is a great opportunity.

+1

JD


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