"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 05:52:39PM -0000, Andrew Hammond wrote:
>>> +1. Given the prevalence of the pg_foo convention, those names are
>>> clunky. So is initdb. I'm less creative than Zdenek, so I'd suggest
>>> simply renaming to pg_createuser and friends with the same command
>>> line options as the originals. Have the binaries check $0 and emit a
>>> warning about using the deprecated name to STDERR if called by a name
>>> that doesn't have the pg_ prefix. Default to symlinking the old names
>>> for backwards compatibility until 9.0.
>>
>> +1
> +1
I like this better than the original proposal, too. Doing more than
this seems like more work and more confusion for users than the problem
justifies.
regards, tom lane