Re: Issues about postgresql file names

Is this of interest to anyone? He makes some good points.

With all the good features and interest in postgresql
as an alternative to Oracle, etc., why shoot yourself
in the foot with problems like this:

Trying to find info by search engine is hard
because the program is now called postgresql,
formerly postgres95,
formerly postgres.

The autoload script in
/etc/rc.d/init.d is called postgresql, but it
uses a pid called postmaster.pid.
It loads a binary called postgres,
but tells you that "postmaster" looks good.

The database is stored in PGDATA. (caps)

Okay, we are running, and we found our files:

It's pg_ctrl, and pg_dump,
pg_dump_all, pg_id,
pg_passwd, pg_upgrade
and pg_version.

So if you want to log on,
do you type pg_sql or pgsql?
Of course not! You type psql

What are the odbc files called? libpsqlodbc
And the tcl files are called? libpgtcl

And in case you don't have anything else to do, install
rpm binaries, because they will put the files in
different directories, so you won't find anything that
matches the official documentation.

Please put naming all the files consistently
on your todo list.

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