Re: disable prompting by default in createuser
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-12-22T19:26:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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- createuser-noprompt.patch (text/x-patch) patch
On lör, 2011-11-26 at 01:28 +0200, Peter Eisentraut 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? Patch attached. I'll add it to the next commitfest.