Re: disable prompting by default in createuser

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> I propose that we change createuser so that it does not prompt for
> anything by default.  We can arrange options so that you can get prompts
> for whatever is missing, but by default, a call to createuser should
> just run CREATE USER with default options.  The fact that createuser
> issues prompts is always annoying when you create setup scripts, because
> you have to be careful to specify all the necessary options, and they
> are inconsistent and different between versions (although the last
> change about that was a long time ago), and the whole behavior seems
> contrary to the behavior of all other utilities.  I don't think there'd
> be a real loss by not prompting by default; after all, we don't really
> want to encourage users to create more superusers, do we?  Comments?

+1.  I've never found the current behavior to be other than an
annoyance.  I suggest --interactive or something like that to enable
prompting.

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