Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> > This warning was added because of security considerations AFAIR. If the
> > intent is to make initdb super-quiet, we still have to have security in
> > mind. So if you want it to not say anything by default, instead of
> > throwing a warning it should throw an error and refuse to continue;
> > unless a default password is specified or a --silently-enable-trust-auth
> > switch is passed, in either of which cases it can silently continue.
>
> There is 0 chance that we will design initdb to fail by default.
I disagree with the goal that it should be super-quiet anyway, so I
don't care anyway (and I also have scripts that work on the assumption
that it works by default.)
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