Re: Bugtraq: Having Fun With PostgreSQL

From: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)CommandPrompt(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)CommandPrompt(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Bugtraq: Having Fun With PostgreSQL
Date: 2007-06-18 09:22:27
Message-ID: 1182158547.4592.7.camel@localhost.localdomain
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Hi,

On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 01:58 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

> Practically every existing packaging of PG tries to run initdb as a
> hidden, behind-the-scenes, definitely not-interactive procedure.

Also, from RPM perspective: RPMs are *not* interactive, and will *never*
be. So we cannot ask user a password during initdb, or such.

Regards,
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Devrim GÜNDÜZ
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