Re: initdb recommendations

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: initdb recommendations
Date: 2019-07-22 13:21:02
Message-ID: 7b6c4220-e5ef-2a13-18ad-af596c52b71a@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2019-07-13 18:58, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
>>> The default client authentication setup is such that users can connect
>>> over the Unix-domain socket to the same database user name as their
>>> operating system user names (on operating systems that support this,
>>> which are most modern Unix-like systems, but not Windows) and
>>> otherwise with a password. To assign a password to the initial
>>> database superuser, use one of initdb's -W, --pwprompt or -- pwfile
>>> options.
>>
>> Do you have a suggestion for where to put this and exactly how to phrase
>> this?
>>
>> I think the initdb reference page would be more appropriate than
>> runtime.sgml.
>
> Yes initdb.sgml seems more suitable. I was thinking something very
> similar to your note, maybe like (also attached if my MUA ruins it):

Pushed with that note. Thanks.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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