Re: initdb createuser commands

On 10/30/2016 02:19 AM, Samuel Williams wrote:
> John - that's an interesting example. If it's that easy, why isn't
> that the approach given in tutorials and other documentation? What was
> the motivation for the createuser command?

psql was less user friendly in the past?

Compare:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.1/static/app-psql.html

to

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/app-psql.html

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> On 30 October 2016 at 20:20, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:
>> On 10/30/2016 12:15 AM, Samuel Williams wrote:
>>>
>>> But, I think having "pg_createuser" or, preferrably, "pg createuser".
>>
>>
>> psql -c "create user ...."
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