>>No, but none of the others are better. See previous discussions in the
>>archives. I don't think the situation has changed any since the last
>>time we hashed this out.
>
> If they supply a password to initdb, shouldn't we then require a
> password in pg_hba.conf.
This is further to my previous suggestion that we output the encoding
that is being defaulted to.
NEW USERS DO NOT KNOW THAT -W EXISTS!
Even the majority of experienced users don't!
It's a real pain in the butt that stuff like -E and -W aren't required
parameters to initdb.
Chris