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Re: Survey: renaming/removing script binaries (createdb, createuser...)

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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Leif B. Kristensen" <leif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > On Wednesday 26. March 2008, Ron Mayer wrote:
> >> I'd prefer a "pg" program that took as arguments
> >> the command.  So you'd have "pg createdb" instead
> >> of "pg_createdb".
> 
> > I'll second that. It would be much easier on the brain, as you might 
> > issue a "pg --help" if you don't remember the exact syntax or even the 
> > name of each command.
> 
> I like this too.  It'd be considerably more work than the currently
> proposed patch, though, since we'd have to meld the currently
> separate programs into one executable.

I note that we can continue to have the current executables stashed in
PREFIX/share/libexec and let the "pg" executable exec them.

> If we are OK with restricting the scope of the "pg" program to
> client-side functionality, then there's no problem.

Perhaps we can put the server-side functionality on pg_ctl.

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