Re: [HACKERS] Re: HISTORY for 6.5.2 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Hannu Krosing
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Re: HISTORY for 6.5.2
Date
Msg-id 37E72AD3.8A8CF94C@tm.ee
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Re: HISTORY for 6.5.2  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>)
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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 

;)

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Hannu


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