On Jul 7, 2007, at 13:50 , Tom Lane wrote:
> Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM> writes:
>> Dave Page wrote:
>>> This is almost as bad as Magnus agreeing with JD (!), but I agree
>>> with
>>> Peter :-). After years of typing the current names, changing them
>>> does
>>> seem somewhat annoying. Worse yet, pg_* is just awkward to type.
>
>> But these utilities are mostly using in scripts -> one type, multi
>> use.
>
> According to whom? The ones that are really at issue I think are
> createuser/createlang/dropuser/droplang, and those seem mainly
> intended
> for interactive use. In a script you might as well use psql -c.
I'm curious as to know how often these are used at all. I think I may
have used createuser once and used to use createlang, but I can't
recall ever using the others.
Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net