Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info> writes: > It's not very hard to do. But I really wonder why it's not already done. I > fear there was a good idea, but I fail to see which one :)
The core reason why we haven't complicated createuser in that particular direction is that createuser is only a convenience function for easy cases. There is not anything it could do for you that you can't do in psql, and there are multiple cases that it doesn't attempt to handle at all (some of the less-common options to CREATE USER, for instance). I don't have any problem with "I decided to get rid of the postgres database" being one of the unhandled cases.
Sure, I understand. That's fine with me. Thanks for the explanation.
