From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Thomas Hallgren <thomas(at)tada(dot)se>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, James William Pye <james(dot)pye(at)icrossing(dot)com>, Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, James William Pye <pgsql(at)jwp(dot)name> |
Subject: | Re: Adding a --quiet option to initdb |
Date: | 2006-01-27 15:56:10 |
Message-ID: | 20060127155610.GE18334@surnet.cl |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> > This warning was added because of security considerations AFAIR. If the
> > intent is to make initdb super-quiet, we still have to have security in
> > mind. So if you want it to not say anything by default, instead of
> > throwing a warning it should throw an error and refuse to continue;
> > unless a default password is specified or a --silently-enable-trust-auth
> > switch is passed, in either of which cases it can silently continue.
>
> There is 0 chance that we will design initdb to fail by default.
I disagree with the goal that it should be super-quiet anyway, so I
don't care anyway (and I also have scripts that work on the assumption
that it works by default.)
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/DXLWNGRJD34J
"Linux transformó mi computadora, de una `máquina para hacer cosas',
en un aparato realmente entretenido, sobre el cual cada día aprendo
algo nuevo" (Jaime Salinas)
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