On 3/29/19 3:43 PM, Christoph Berg wrote: > Re: Joe Conway 2019-03-29 <48e5efaf-7ea2-ed70-a803-949bbfec8...@joeconway.com> >> echo "\password :\"role\"" | psql -v role='my role' >> Enter new password: >> Enter it again: >> >> That said, this is kind of off the topic of this thread. > > It is on-topic because the reason we can't just tell people to replace > createuser $foo > with > psql -c "create user $foo" > is because $foo might need escaping. > > IMHO if we find an way to do that which is acceptable for sh scripts, > the createuser/... commands could go.
I think these commands *were* once (at least some of them) shell scripts and we went to executable C in order to make them work on Windows, IIRC. >> I like Tom's last suggestion of: >> >> pg_util <command> <options> >> >> Of course that does not lend itself to symlinking for backward >> compatibility, does it? If there is a way I am not familiar with it. > > We could symlink createuser -> pg_util. It is pretty common for > commands to act differently based on the name the were invoked as. Yeah, I forgot about that. Does that also go for Windows? Joe -- Crunchy Data - http://crunchydata.com PostgreSQL Support for Secure Enterprises Consulting, Training, & Open Source Development