Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 3:19 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> If we didn't pull the trigger twenty years ago, nor ten years ago,
> we're not likely to do so now.  Yeah, it's a mess and we'd certainly
> do it differently if we were starting from scratch, but we're not
> starting from scratch.  There are decades worth of scripts out there
> that know these program names, most of them not under our control.
>
> Every time this has been looked at, we've concluded that the
> distributed costs of getting rid of these program names would exceed
> the value; and that tradeoff gets worse, not better, as more years
> go by.  I don't foresee it happening.

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.