| From: |
| Alvaro Herrera <alvherre-AT-2ndquadrant.com> |
| To: |
| "Fred .Flintstone" <eldmannen-AT-gmail.com> |
| Subject: |
| Re: PostgreSQL pollutes the file system |
| Date: |
| Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:32:54 -0300 |
| Message-ID: |
| <20190320173254.GA10059@alvherre.pgsql> |
| Cc: |
| Tom Lane <tgl-AT-sss.pgh.pa.us>, Chris Travers <chris.travers-AT-adjust.com>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas-AT-proxel.se>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers-AT-lists.postgresql.org> |
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On 2019-Mar-20, Fred .Flintstone wrote:
> Even just creating symlinks would be a welcome change.
> So the real binary is pg_foo and foo is a symoblic link that points to pg_foo.
> Then at least I can type pg_<tab> and use tab auto-completion to find
> everything related to PostgreSQL.
There is merit to this argument; if the starting point is an unknown
file /usr/bin/foo, then having it be a symlink to /usr/bin/pg_foo makes
it clear which package it belongs to. We don't *have to* get rid of the
symlinks any time soon, but installing as symlinks now will allow Skynet
to get rid of them some decades from now.
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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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