> Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se> writes:
>> On 3/27/19 3:26 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>>> That is true, of course. But are there actual examples of such conflicts
>>> in practice? I mean, are there tools/packages that provide commands with
>>> a conflicting name? I'm not aware of any, and as was pointed before, we'd
>>> have ~20 years of history on any new ones.
>
>> That is a fair argument. Since we squatted those names back in the
>> mid-90s I think the risk of collision is low.
>
> Right. I think there is a fair argument to be made for user confusion
> (not actual conflict) with respect to createuser and dropuser. The
> argument for renaming any of the other tools is much weaker, IMO.
If we were to invent new command names, what about doing similar to
git? I mean something like:
pgsql createdb ....
Here, "pgsql" is new command name and "createdb" is a sub command name
to create a database.
This way, we would be free from the command name conflict problem and
plus, we could do:
pgsql --help
which will prints subscommand names when a user is not sure what is
the sub command name.
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