Re: createuser ignores stdin in 8.1.0?

Gary Horton wrote:
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> Richard Huxton wrote:
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> > Gary Horton wrote:
> >
> >> ...and in 7.3.4, this works just fine, with the shell consuming the
> >> stdin and redirecting it to the createuser command, which
> >> subsequently doesn't bother the user with the prompt (i.e. the
> >> prompts are responded to automatically). However, this doesn't work
> >> at all in 8.1.0 -- regardless of the stdin redirection, the
> >> createuser program appears to ignore the stdin information and
> >> insists on prompting for the input instead.
> >
> >
> > Don't know what's changed, but it could be something that happened
> > when roles were introduced. A way to work around it would be to issue
> > the SQL "CREATE USER... PASSWORD 'foo'" via psql.
>
> That's a great idea, Richard - thanks, I'll give this a shot --

createuser was converted from a shell script to a C program in 7.4, so I
guess something changed at that point.

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