Re: [WIP] pg_ping utility

From: Phil Sorber <phil(at)omniti(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [WIP] pg_ping utility
Date: 2012-10-22 15:47:13
Message-ID: CADAkt-g7_in=ON78tT5OksrRppsAEqs92Mhx3tfFEzj-Du=xQg@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Phil Sorber <phil(at)omniti(dot)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.

Attachment Content-Type Size
pg_ping_bin_v2.diff application/octet-stream 7.7 KB
pg_ping_docs_v2.diff application/octet-stream 7.1 KB

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