On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: > I propose that we change createuser so that it does not prompt for > anything by default. We can arrange options so that you can get prompts > for whatever is missing, but by default, a call to createuser should > just run CREATE USER with default options. The fact that createuser > issues prompts is always annoying when you create setup scripts, because > you have to be careful to specify all the necessary options, and they > are inconsistent and different between versions (although the last > change about that was a long time ago), and the whole behavior seems > contrary to the behavior of all other utilities. I don't think there'd > be a real loss by not prompting by default; after all, we don't really > want to encourage users to create more superusers, do we? Comments?
+1. I've never found the current behavior to be other than an annoyance. I suggest --interactive or something like that to enable prompting. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
