| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Andrew Hammond" <andrew(dot)george(dot)hammond(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Andrew Sullivan" <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Bugtraq: Having Fun With PostgreSQL |
| Date: | 2007-06-25 23:31:28 |
| Message-ID: | 7946.1182814288@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Andrew Hammond" <andrew(dot)george(dot)hammond(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On 6/25/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> The normal build process for any open-source package is
>>
>> ./configure
>> make
>> sudo make install
>> ... now what? OK, time to read the manual ...
> Since they presumably don't know about initdb yet, yeah, I figure
> they'll be reading the manual. We already talk about how to initdb.
> It seems reasonable to have the manual talk about how to initially
> connect to your "secure by default" database and create a
> non-superuser working user.
+1 on having such a discussion in the manual (someone else suggested
that already IIRC). But I'm not seeing what a configure flag brings
to the party.
regards, tom lane
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