At 10:56 PM 7/23/98, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
>> In fact, they are handled by SQL: CREATE DATABASE and DROP DATABASE. The
>> createdb and destroydb tools just call these SQL statements....
>
> Here's an odd thought:
>
> Let's remove the "I don't want to think" utilities like
>{create,destroy}{db,user} and force DBA's to actually use the *proper*
>functions.
:-)
Actually...
While the man pages indicate that these invoke psql, and that a postmaster
must be running, and somebody really smart could infer that that means that
there is SQL to do the action, it would be much, much better if the man
pages explicitly stated that it was merely a shortcut to using the sql.
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