Received: from kodu.home.ee (isdn-54.uninet.ee [194.204.0.118]) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA38067 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 02:58:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hannu@tm.ee) Received: from tm.ee (hannu@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kodu.home.ee (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA00523; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 09:50:59 +0300 Sender: hannu@kodu.home.ee Message-ID: <37E72AD3.8A8CF94C@tm.ee> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 09:50:59 +0300 From: Hannu Krosing Organization: Trust-O-Matic =?iso-8859-1?Q?O=DC?= X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.6 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Hermit Hacker CC: Thomas Lockhart , Vince Vielhaber , Tom Lane , Lamar Owen , Theo Kramer , "pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org" , Bruce Momjian Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: HISTORY for 6.5.2 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 ;) ------------ Hannu