Re: BUG #8139: initdb: Misleading error message when current user not in /etc/passwd

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, nicolas(at)marchildon(dot)net, Bugs for PostgreSQL <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #8139: initdb: Misleading error message when current user not in /etc/passwd
Date: 2014-01-07 04:41:32
Message-ID: 20140107044132.GC30539@momjian.us
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On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:46:43AM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 12/9/13, 7:47 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >> Not clear whether the new file should be in src/port or src/common.
> > Agreed. It isn't designed to add missing OS functionality, but it is
> > mostly OS-specific code.
>
> It's not for portability, though, is it?

Well, neither is sprompt.c, but that has a lot of port-specific code in
it, so I used that as a guide.

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