Re: [HACKERS] Re: HISTORY for 6.5.2

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Theo Kramer <theo(at)flame(dot)co(dot)za>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: HISTORY for 6.5.2
Date: 1999-09-21 06:50:59
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The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
>
> > > Force the admin to learn what they are doing...if they want to create
> > > short cut scripts, let *them* do it...
> >
> > Damn. You're going to make me read the docs?
>
> IMHO...yes. It would sure eliminate the "how do I change the password
> for a user" if the person wanting to change that password had had to read
> the docs in the first place, and witih know about the 'with password' part
> of 'create user'...

To achieve that, you can't just instruct a newbie in INSTALL.TXT to do

$ psql template1
$> create user alex

but instead

$ psql template1
$>\h create user

or even better

RTFM

;)

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Hannu

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