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Re: [HACKERS] Re: HISTORY for 6.5.2

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

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From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: 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: 1999-09-21T01:26:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > My personal dislike for them is that they are incomplete...CREATE USER and
> > CREATE DATABASE  have a helluva lot of options available to it...using
> > createuser, you don't know/learn abotu them...
> > 
> > Force the admin to learn what they are doing...if they want to create
> > short cut scripts, let *them* do it...
> 
> But newbies can't do shortcuts.  I think we need to keep it.

Newbies can't read man pages to type 'CREATE USER <userid>' or 'CREATE
DATABASE <database>'?

We're not asking anyone to learn rocket science here...we leave that to
Thomas :)

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org