Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
> I would be curious to hear the reason why such tool names have been
> chosen from the start. The tools have been switched to C in 9e0ab71
> from 2003, have been introduced by Peter Eisentraut as of 240e4c9 from
> 1999, and I cannot spot the thread from the time where this was
> discussed.
createuser, at least, dates back to Berkeley days: my copy of the
PG v4r2 tarball contains a "src/bin/createuser/createuser.sh" file
dated 1994-03-19. (The 1999 commit you mention just moved the
functionality around; it was there before.) So I imagine the answer
is that nobody at the time thought of fitting these scripts into a
larger ecosystem.
regards, tom lane