Re: pg_encoding not needed anymore

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>Karel Zak wrote:
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>>On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 08:41:18PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
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>>>With initdb written now in C, we don't need a pg_encoding binary
>>>anymore.
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>> By  the way,  what  change  the name  of  "initdb" to  "pg_initdb". The
>> current  name  is  really  too  common  (like  some  others  things  in
>> pgsql/src/bin)
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>Uh, that would be pretty major.  No one has complained about it in the
>past.  I think createuser is much worse.  :-)
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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.

cheers

andrew