Re: initdb recommendations

On 2019-07-11 21:34, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
>> Note that with this change, running initdb without arguments will now
>> error on those platforms: You need to supply either a password or select
>> a different default authentication method.
> Should we make this explicitly stated in the documentation? As a
> reference, it's saying:
>
> The default client authentication setup is such that users can connect
> over the Unix-domain socket to the same database user name as their
> operating system user names (on operating systems that support this,
> which are most modern Unix-like systems, but not Windows) and
> otherwise with a password. To assign a password to the initial
> database superuser, use one of initdb's -W, --pwprompt or -- pwfile
> options.

Do you have a suggestion for where to put this and exactly how to phrase
this?

I think the initdb reference page would be more appropriate than
runtime.sgml.

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