Thread: initdb check_need_password fix

initdb check_need_password fix

From
Peter Eisentraut
Date:
If you run initdb -A md5, you get an error

initdb: must specify a password for the superuser to enable md5 authentication

In 9.2, when you run something like initdb --auth-local=peer
--auth-host=md5, you still get that error, which I think is a mistake.
The error should only be shown if both authentication choices are
password-like.  Hence I propose the attached patch.



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Re: initdb check_need_password fix

From
Robert Haas
Date:
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> If you run initdb -A md5, you get an error
>
> initdb: must specify a password for the superuser to enable md5 authentication
>
> In 9.2, when you run something like initdb --auth-local=peer
> --auth-host=md5, you still get that error, which I think is a mistake.
> The error should only be shown if both authentication choices are
> password-like.  Hence I propose the attached patch.

Looks right to me.

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