Re: Adding a --quiet option to initdb - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Adding a --quiet option to initdb
Date
Msg-id 20060127155610.GE18334@surnet.cl
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In response to Re: Adding a --quiet option to initdb  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.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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