From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: disable prompting by default in createuser |
Date: | 2011-11-26 00:32:47 |
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On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> I propose that we change createuser so that it does not prompt for
> anything by default. We can arrange options so that you can get prompts
> for whatever is missing, but by default, a call to createuser should
> just run CREATE USER with default options. The fact that createuser
> issues prompts is always annoying when you create setup scripts, because
> you have to be careful to specify all the necessary options, and they
> are inconsistent and different between versions (although the last
> change about that was a long time ago), and the whole behavior seems
> contrary to the behavior of all other utilities. I don't think there'd
> be a real loss by not prompting by default; after all, we don't really
> want to encourage users to create more superusers, do we? Comments?
+1. I've never found the current behavior to be other than an
annoyance. I suggest --interactive or something like that to enable
prompting.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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