Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

On Thursday, March 28, 2019, Fred .Flintstone <eldmannen@gmail.com> wrote:

There would be no need to remove anything if we just renamed the
executable and created symlinks for them.

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 10:20 PM Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
> On 2019-03-27 18:09, Tom Lane wrote:
> > My recollection of the discussion is that people argued that "postmaster"
> > might be taken to have something to do with an e-mail server, and
> > therefore we needed to stop using that name.  The lack of either follow-on
> > complaints or follow-on action doesn't make me too well disposed to
> > what is essentially that same argument over again.
>
> The reason there was that the distinction was mostly useless and the
> different command-line option parsing was confusing.  The name itself
> was confusing but not in conflict with anything.
>
> However, we do know that we are very bad at actually getting rid of
> deprecated things.
>
> How about we compromise in this thread and remove postmaster and leave
> everything else as is. ;-)
>
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