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Re: [HACKERS] Re: HISTORY for 6.5.2

Michael Simms <grim@argh.demon.co.uk>

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From: Michael Simms <grim@argh.demon.co.uk>
To: lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu (Thomas Lockhart)
Cc: lamar.owen@wgcr.org (Lamar Owen), tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane), theo@flame.co.za (Theo Kramer), pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org (pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org)
Date: 1999-09-19T06:14:57Z
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> > on the issue).  Thomas??  The same goes for the admin commands' man pages --
> > they should be in section 8 on the typical Linux box.
> 
> Man page sections can be reassigned for the next release. afaik
> /usr/sbin tends to contain programs executed by root, which is not
> usually the case for Postgres. Is there a precedent for other programs
> of this type in that directory?

IIRC majordomo puts the whole slew of commands in the same directory, usually
/usr/local/bin when you install it. Most of these are not really user commands

> btw, is it only me or do other people refer to this as "pig dump"?

I try and steer clear of pig dump in all its forms {;-)

						~Michael