Re: pg_encoding not needed anymore
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-04-20T14:32:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >past. I think createuser is much worse. :-) > > > > > > > Agreed. Actually, the big problem with the name "initdb" is that the > name is misleading, and newbies often get confused by it. You are > preparing a data store for many databases, not a single database. But I > think it is far too sanctified by history to change now, just as Ken > Thompson now wishes he had put an 'e' on the end of 'creat' but can't go > back and fix it. Maybe we should think about a symlink/hardlink to use a > better name. Yea, initcluster would have been better, but cluster confuses with CLUSTER, just like database schema confuses with CREATE SCHEMA. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073