Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

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От Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais
Тема Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system
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Msg-id 20190320191025.22e3a5c1@firost
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Ответ на Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:56:55 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 6:25 PM Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com.br>
> > wrote:  
> >> createdb, dropdb, createuser, dropuser, reindexdb are binaries that
> >> confuse most newbies. Which tool is theses binaries from? The names
> >> does not give a hint. How often those confusing name tools are used?  
> 
> > initdb is probably an order of magnitude worse name than all of these.  
> 
> Meh.  The ones with "db" in the name don't strike me as mortal sins;
> even if you don't recognize them as referring to a "database", you're
> not likely to guess wrongly that you know what they do.  The two that
> seem the worst to me are createuser and dropuser, which not only have
> no visible connection to "postgres" or "database" but could easily
> be mistaken for utilities for managing operating-system accounts.
> 
> We managed to get rid of createlang and droplang in v10, and there
> hasn't been that much push-back about it.  So maybe there could be
> a move to remove createuser/dropuser?  Or at least rename them to
> pg_createuser and pg_dropuser.

If you rename them, rename as pg_createrole and pg_droprole :)

I teach people not to use "CREATE USER/GROUP", but each time I have to tell
them "Yes, we kept createuser since 8.1 where roles has been introduced for
backward compatibility. No, there's no createrole".

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