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Re: [HACKERS] Re: HISTORY for 6.5.2

Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>

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From: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
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>, Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Date: 1999-09-21T06:50:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> 
> 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'...

To achieve that, you can't just instruct a newbie in INSTALL.TXT to do

$ psql template1
$> create user alex

but instead

$ psql template1
$>\h create user

or even better

RTFM 

;)

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Hannu