Re: [BUGS] BUG #5475: Problem during Instalation

2010-06-09 Thread Joel Henrique
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Re: [BUGS] BUG #5475: Problem during Instalation

2010-06-09 Thread Dave Page
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > I'm suggesting that you prompt for that separately, as shown in the > above pseudocode.  It seems to me that conflating the postgres user > account password with the database superuser password is confusing... > IJWH, of course. As I said in a

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5475: Problem during Instalation

2010-06-09 Thread Dave Page
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Dave Page wrote: >> Please provide a password for the database superuser (${superaccount}) >> and service account (${serviceaccount}). If the service account >> already exists in Windows, you must enter the curre

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5475: Problem during Instalation

2010-06-09 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Dave Page wrote: > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Robert Haas wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Dave Page wrote: >>> Please provide a password for the database superuser (${superaccount}) >>> and service account (${serviceaccount}). If the service accoun

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5475: Problem during Instalation

2010-06-09 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Dave Page wrote: > Please provide a password for the database superuser (${superaccount}) > and service account (${serviceaccount}). If the service account > already exists in Windows, you must enter the current password for the > account. If the account does not ex

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5475: Problem during Instalation

2010-06-09 Thread Dave Page
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: > On 09/06/10 18:09, Dave Page wrote: > >> I'm unconvinced that the extra complexity involved in checking the >> existence of the service account to tweak the message is worthwhile. I >> don't think it buys us extra simplicity that would suddenly

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5475: Problem during Instalation

2010-06-09 Thread Craig Ringer
On 09/06/10 18:09, Dave Page wrote: > I'm unconvinced that the extra complexity involved in checking the > existence of the service account to tweak the message is worthwhile. I > don't think it buys us extra simplicity that would suddenly make > people understand. In the end, you know this much

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5475: Problem during Instalation

2010-06-09 Thread Dave Page
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Craig Ringer wrote: > - During the install, test for the existence of a 'postgres' user > account before displaying the password prompt panel of the installer > "wizard". > > - If such an account does not exist, display the existing UI password > prompt ui with sim

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5475: Problem during Instalation

2010-06-09 Thread Craig Ringer
On 09/06/10 17:26, Sachin Srivastava wrote: > If a user has admin rights, he can anytime change the password for an > existing 'postgres' user account in case he doesn't remember the > password anymore. ... but people clearly don't know how, given the frequency of questions about this on the list

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5475: Problem during Instalation

2010-06-09 Thread Sachin Srivastava
On 6/9/10 2:33 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: On 09/06/10 16:29, Dave Page wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Craig Ringer wrote: Only because the PostgreSQL system user account password is coupled to the account of the "postgres" user in the PostgreSQL database cluster (right?). I'm

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5475: Problem during Instalation

2010-06-09 Thread Craig Ringer
On 09/06/10 16:29, Dave Page wrote: > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Craig Ringer > wrote: > >> Only because the PostgreSQL system user account password is coupled to >> the account of the "postgres" user in the PostgreSQL database cluster >> (right?). I'm not at a Windows box right now so I can

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5475: Problem during Instalation

2010-06-09 Thread Dave Page
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Craig Ringer wrote: > Only because the PostgreSQL system user account password is coupled to > the account of the "postgres" user in the PostgreSQL database cluster > (right?). I'm not at a Windows box right now so I can't test to see if > altering the Pg role's pa

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5475: Problem during Instalation

2010-06-09 Thread Craig Ringer
On 09/06/10 15:47, Dave Page wrote: > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Craig Ringer > wrote: > >> Really, the installer on Windows needs to stash the password in an >> admin-only-readable registry key, read it from there on install, and test to >> make sure it works. If it does, Pg need not even b

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5475: Problem during Instalation

2010-06-09 Thread Dave Page
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Craig Ringer wrote: > Really, the installer on Windows needs to stash the password in an > admin-only-readable registry key, read it from there on install, and test to > make sure it works. If it does, Pg need not even bother the user with the > account password at

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5475: Problem during Instalation

2010-06-08 Thread Sachin Srivastava
On 5/26/10 7:18 PM, Joel Henrique wrote: The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 5475 Logged by: Joel Henrique Email address: j...@cefet-al.br PostgreSQL version: 8.4.4-1 Operating system: Windows 2003 Server Description:Problem during Instalation De

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5475: Problem during Instalation

2010-06-08 Thread Craig Ringer
On 9/06/2010 11:06 AM, Robert Haas wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Joel Henrique wrote: The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 5475 Logged by: Joel Henrique Email address: j...@cefet-al.br PostgreSQL version: 8.4.4-1 Operating system: Windows 200

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5475: Problem during Instalation

2010-06-08 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Joel Henrique wrote: > > The following bug has been logged online: > > Bug reference:      5475 > Logged by:          Joel Henrique > Email address:      j...@cefet-al.br > PostgreSQL version: 8.4.4-1 > Operating system:   Windows 2003 Server > Description:        

[BUGS] BUG #5475: Problem during Instalation

2010-05-26 Thread Joel Henrique
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 5475 Logged by: Joel Henrique Email address: j...@cefet-al.br PostgreSQL version: 8.4.4-1 Operating system: Windows 2003 Server Description:Problem during Instalation Details: When I try to install postgres it