Re: [WIP] pg_ping utility

Phil Sorber <phil@omniti.com>

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From: Phil Sorber <phil@omniti.com>

To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Cc: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>

Date: 2012-10-22T15:47:13Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Attachments

pg_ping_bin_v2.diff (application/octet-stream) patch v2
pg_ping_docs_v2.diff (application/octet-stream) patch v2

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Phil Sorber <phil@omniti.com> writes:
>> Here is the new patch. I renamed the utility from pg_ping to pingdb to
>> go along with the naming convention of src/bin/scripts.
>
> Uh, no, that's not a step forward.  Leaving out a "pg" prefix from those
> script names is universally agreed to have been a mistake.  We've not
> felt that changing the legacy names is worth the amount of pain it'd
> cause, but that doesn't mean that we should propagate the mistake into
> brand new executable names.
>
>                         regards, tom lane

Ok. I asked about this and got no response so I assume there were no
strong opinions. I have reverted to the pg_ping name. Patches
attached.