Re: Survey: renaming/removing script binaries (createdb, createuser...) - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Thursday 27. March 2008, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>Zdenek Kotala wrote:
>> And what about two commands one for create and one for drop?
>> It save 6 or 4 chars.
>>
>> pgc db  (as create db)
>> pgc user
>> pgd db  (as drop db)
>> pgd user
>
>Well, there are things besides create and drop -- for example vacuum.

I figure something like the more or less standard options for modern
*nixes, with short and long options like eg.

pgc -C, --createdb
pgc -a, --adduser
pgc -m, --modify
pgc -D, --dropdb

etc.

Probably the short options should be capitals for db stuff, small
letters for user stuff.
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