Re: [HACKERS] Re: HISTORY for 6.5.2

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>, Theo Kramer <theo@flame.co.za>, "pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Date: 1999-09-20T22:26:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Vince Vielhaber wrote:

> 
> On 20-Sep-99 The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 
> >> I have been thinking, the destroy should be drop, in keeping with SQL. 
> >> destroy was a QUEL'ism.
> > 
> > {create,destroy}{user,db} should be drop'd, personally...admins should use
> > the SQL commands directly...
> 
> I think it'd be better if they were kept.  They're really convenient for
> the newbie (I just introduced someone to PostgreSQL and all the way thru
> were references to MySQL, including the create user, db, etc. scripts).

My personal dislike for them is that they are incomplete...CREATE USER and
CREATE DATABASE  have a helluva lot of options available to it...using
createuser, you don't know/learn abotu them...

Force the admin to learn what they are doing...if they want to create
short cut scripts, let *them* do it...

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org