Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 11:00:18AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>On 2019-Mar-27, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>
>> I think the consensus in this thread (and the previous ancient ones) is
>> that it's not worth it. It's one thing to introduce new commands with the
>> pg_ prefix, and it's a completely different thing to rename existing ones.
>> That has inherent costs, and as Tom pointed out the burden would fall on
>> people using PostgreSQL (and that's rather undesirable).
>
>I thought the consensus was to rename them, and install symlinks to the
>old names.
>

I know symlinks were mentioned/proposed, but I don't think there's a clear
consensus to do that. I might have missed that part of the discussion.

That being said, I'm not strongly opposed to doing that, although I still
don't see the need to do that ...

regard

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