Re: [HACKERS] Removing binaries (was: createlang/droplang deprecated)

On 03/19/2017 01:01 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se> writes:
>> As for if we should have backwards compatibility for the old names I am
>> leaning weakly for providing it in the case of createuser. I can see end
>> users being pissed off that the createuser command is suddenly gone
>> without any warning when they upgrade. On the flip side I have no idea
>> how much work it would be to maintain those legacy names.
>
> It seems reasonably trivial to me as far as the code goes --- just
> create a symlink during installation.  (On Windows I suppose we'd have
> to make a second physical copy, but these files are not so large that
> that seems unacceptable.)

Windows supports symlinks:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365680(v=vs.85).aspx

JD


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