Re: BUG #5475: Problem during Instalation - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: BUG #5475: Problem during Instalation
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Msg-id AANLkTil_ESeT2abfx-DSdDAWaRBE3CoaM5NYroja3z64@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: BUG #5475: Problem during Instalation  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
Responses Re: BUG #5475: Problem during Instalation
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On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> Please provide a password for the database superuser (${superaccount})
> and service account (${serviceaccount}). If the service account
> already exists in Windows, you must enter the current password for the
> account. If the account does not exist, it will be created when you
> click 'Next'.

I think that's REALLY confusing.  It seems to me that asking for a
password which might be used either to log into an existing account or
to set the password for an account that's about to be created is not
very user-friendly at all.  And we get questions about it here
regularly.  Why not:

If (account exists)
  prompt user to log into account
else
  tell user account will be created, ask for account pw
prompt user for db superuser pw

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Robert Haas
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The Enterprise Postgres Company

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