Re: Prevent printing "next step instructions" in initdb and pg_upgrade

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-11-25T15:33:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> I guess one option could be to just remove it, unconditionally. And
> assume that any users who is running it manually read that in docs
> somewhere that tells them what to do next, and that any user who's
> running it under a wrapper will have the wrapper set it up?

I could get behind that, personally.  (1) I think most end-users don't
run initdb by hand anymore.  (2) The message is barely useful; what
it mostly does is to distract your attention from the slightly
more useful info printed ahead of it.

>> would be, though.  Maybe we need to add some kind of text adventure game
>> into initdb.

> I do like this idea though...

+1

			regards, tom lane



Commits

  1. Remove extra Success message at the end of initdb