Re: BUG #5393: Installer sets superuser password if passwords don't match

I can't help thinking that as a community we don't do ourselves any
favours at all by being so damn pedantic about where bugs should be
reported. What must new users think when they get chastised for
reporting a *PostgreSQL* Installer bug, from an insraller they
probably got via www.postgresql.org on that same website?

If this is a real problem for people, perhaps someone should update
the web form to ask for the sub-project and direct the bug reports
accordingly rather than have us continue to bleat at users.
Volunteers?

Back on topic - there are of course a number of people working on the
installers who watch this list, and as one of them I can confirm that
this issue was noted and resolved just this week.

On 4/8/10, Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Joshua Tolley <eggyknap@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
>>> I accidentally rejected this message while moderating -bugs, so I'm
>>> forwarding
>>> it to the list to atone for myself. Apologies to all involved...
>>>
>>> From: Rens Admiraal <rens@rensnel.nl>
>>> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:00:27 GMT
>>> To: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
>>> Subject: BUG #5393: Installer sets superuser password if passwords don't
>>> match
>>>
>>> The following bug has been logged online:
>>>
>>> Bug reference:      5393
>>> Logged by:          Rens Admiraal
>>> Email address:      rens@rensnel.nl
>>> PostgreSQL version: 8.4
>>> Operating system:   Windows
>>> Description:        Installer sets superuser password if passwords don't
>>> match
>>> Details:
>>>
>>> I just installed PostgreSQL 8.4 on windows 7 64 bit using the oneclick
>>> installer.
>>>
>>> I didn't read the installation steps as normal :-) So I tried to set a
>>> username + password in the step where the superuser password is asked.
>>>
>>> Offcourse I got the error "Passwords don't match", I read the screen
>>> again,
>>> and thought "A nice, if no users excists, it will be created", and
>>> clicked
>>> next without filling anything. This also didn't work, and I could only
>>> get
>>> it to work using the username I filled in the first password field
>>> initially...
>>>
>>> I would expect the installation not to create a user at all at wrong
>>> input!
>>> So it might be better to check the values in the passwords fields first,
>>> and
>>> create the user if the passwords are equal...
>>
>> I don't know if this list is the right place to report bugs in the
>> one-click installer, or if not where the right place would be.  Anyone
>> else know?
>>
>>
>
> no, it isn't (extracted from: http://www.postgresql.org/support/submitbug)
> """
> This bug report form should only be used for reporting bugs and
> problems with the PostgreSQL database. Problems with database
> connectors such as ODBC and JDBC, graphical administration tools such
> as pgAdmin or other external projects should not be reported here;
> please report to those projects directly. For products closely
> connected with PostgreSQL, there may be an appropriate mailing list
> available.
> """
>
> probably, enterprisedb support forums is the way to go:
> http://forums.enterprisedb.com/forums/list.page
>
> --
> Atentamente,
> Jaime Casanova
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