On 22/03/19 3:05 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.
FWIW the whole set is there in version 6.4.2:
markir@vedavec:/download/postgres/src/postgresql-6.4.2/src/bin$ ls -l
total 72
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 cleardbdir
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 createdb
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 createuser
drwxr-sr-x 2 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 CVS
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 destroydb
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 destroyuser
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 initdb
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 initlocation
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 ipcclean
-rw-r--r-- 1 markir adm 795 Dec 19 1998 Makefile
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 pgaccess
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 pg_dump
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 pg_encoding
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 pg_id
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 pg_passwd
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 pgtclsh
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 pg_version
drwxr-sr-x 3 markir adm 4096 Dec 31 1998 psql
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Mark