Re: pgsql: Remove initdb's rather gratuitous check to see if the backend

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Remove initdb's rather gratuitous check to see if the backend
Date: 2009-09-03 02:41:17
Message-ID: 603c8f070909021941m52cd1e13o9ce69fb849b87870@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Tom Lane<tgl(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
> Log Message:
> -----------
> Remove initdb's rather gratuitous check to see if the backend created a
> flat password file, because it never will anymore.  We had managed to
> miss this during the recent flat-file-ectomy because it only happens if
> --pwfile or --pwprompt is specified to initdb.  Apparently, few hackers
> use those.  Reported by Erik Rijkers.

I am vastly amused by the repeated use of the term "flat-file-ectomy"...

(with apologies for the noise)

...Robert

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