Re: Renaming some binaries

On 2016-08-26 15:03, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2016-08-26 22:01:58 +0200, Simon Riggs wrote:
>> On 26 August 2016 at 18:26, Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com.br> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> > I'm bringing this $subject into discussion again. Historically, we are
>> > carrying binary names that have been confused newbies. createuser is the
>> > worst name so for. Also, names like createdb, initdb, reindexdb, and
>> > droplang does not suggest what product it is referring to. Adding a
>> > prefix (pg_, pg, ...) would 'make things clear'. If we have a consensus
>> > about this change, I suggest renaming the following binaries:
>> >
>> > clusterdb
>> > createdb
>> > createlang
>> > createuser
>> > dropdb
>> > droplang
>> > dropuser
>> > initdb
>> > oid2name
>> > reindexdb
>> > vacuumdb
>> > vacuumlo
>> 
>> Why not just remove them all and change the docs to suggest using
>> 
>> psql -c "CREATE DATABASE foo"
>> etc
>> 
>> Less code, no confusion because we have just one client tool - psql.
> 
> Several of them have the ability to connect to several databases, some
> even do that in parallel.

vacuumdb being one that I've needed recently to do a number of DB's in a 
row.


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