Re: Embedding postgresql in my application - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 12:46 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Murray Cumming wrote:
> > createuser asks for a password on stdin. Do you know of any way to
> > specifify an initial superuser and password for a new database cluster
> > without doing it via stdin? That doesn't seem like a stable API that I
> > should rely on.
> 
> Sure, initdb accepts the -U parameter to specify the user and you can
> put the password in a temp file and give it to initdb with --pwfile.

Thanks. That works well.

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