2017-03-13 17:10 GMT+01:00 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>: > Guillaume Lelarge <guilla...@lelarge.info> writes: > > It's not very hard to do. But I really wonder why it's not already done. > I > > fear there was a good idea, but I fail to see which one :) > > The core reason why we haven't complicated createuser in that particular > direction is that createuser is only a convenience function for easy > cases. There is not anything it could do for you that you can't do in > psql, and there are multiple cases that it doesn't attempt to handle > at all (some of the less-common options to CREATE USER, for instance). > I don't have any problem with "I decided to get rid of the postgres > database" being one of the unhandled cases. > > Sure, I understand. That's fine with me. Thanks for the explanation.
-- Guillaume. http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info http://www.dalibo.com
