On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Bruce Momjian 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'...
> >
> > ...and, ummm...don't you have the docs memorized yet? :)
>
>
> Can we add some output to the createdb command to remind people it can
> be done inside psql?
How about something that outputs what its executing?
running 'psql -e "create database <databasename" template1' or something
like that?
Or have the createdb command run 'man createdb' *grin*
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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