Horton

Re: [HACKERS] Re: HISTORY for 6.5.2

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>, Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>, Theo Kramer <theo@flame.co.za>, "pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 1999-09-21T14:02:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> 
> > > Force the admin to learn what they are doing...if they want to create
> > > short cut scripts, let *them* do it...
> > 
> > Damn. You're going to make me read the docs?
> 
> IMHO...yes.  It would sure eliminate the "how do I change the password
> for a user" if the person wanting to change that password had had to read
> the docs in the first place, and witih know about the 'with password' part
> of 'create user'...
> 
> ...and, ummm...don't you have the docs memorized yet? :)


Can we add some output to the createdb command to remind people it can
be done inside psql?

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