Re: New 'pg' consolidated metacommand patch

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 4:51 AM Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> As mentioned at least once before, the "pg" name is already taken in posix. Granted it has been removed now, but it
wasremoved from posix in 2018, which I think is nowhere near soon enough to "steal. See for example
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pg_(Unix)

The previous discussion of this general topic starts at
http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZQmDY7nLrQ96nLm-wrnmNPY90qdMvZ6LtJO941GwgLMg@mail.gmail.com
and the discussion of this particular issue starts at
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/15135.1586703479%40sss.pgh.pa.us

I think I agree with what Andres said on that thread: rather than
waiting a long time to see what happens, we should grab the name
before somebody else does. As also discussed on that thread, perhaps
we should have the official name of the binary be 'pgsql' with 'pg' as
a symlink that some packagers might choose to omit.

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