Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

Then someone who don't want the symlinks could delete them.
Or the symlinks could ship in an optional postgesql-legacy-symlinks package.

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 6:32 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
> On 2019-Mar-20, Fred .Flintstone wrote:
>
> > Even just creating symlinks would be a welcome change.
> > So the real binary is pg_foo and foo is a symoblic link that points to pg_foo.
> > Then at least I can type pg_<tab> and use tab auto-completion to find
> > everything related to PostgreSQL.
>
> There is merit to this argument; if the starting point is an unknown
> file /usr/bin/foo, then having it be a symlink to /usr/bin/pg_foo makes
> it clear which package it belongs to.  We don't *have to* get rid of the
> symlinks any time soon, but installing as symlinks now will allow Skynet
> to get rid of them some decades from now.
>
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