From: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Cc: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
Cc: Theo Kramer <theo@flame.co.za>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: HISTORY for 6.5.2
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 09:50:59 +0300
Message-ID: <37E72AD3.8A8CF94C@tm.ee> (raw)
References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909210313090.38923-100000@thelab.hub.org>
The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
>
> > > Force the admin to learn what they are doing...if they want to create
> > > short cut scripts, let *them* do it...
> >
> > Damn. You're going to make me read the docs?
>
> IMHO...yes. It would sure eliminate the "how do I change the password
> for a user" if the person wanting to change that password had had to read
> the docs in the first place, and witih know about the 'with password' part
> of 'create user'...
To achieve that, you can't just instruct a newbie in INSTALL.TXT to do
$ psql template1
$> create user alex
but instead
$ psql template1
$>\h create user
or even better
RTFM
;)
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Hannu
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