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Tom Lane 37f6fd1eaa Fix initdb misbehavior when user mis-enters superuser password.
While testing simple_prompt() revisions, I happened to notice that
current initdb behaves rather badly when --pwprompt is specified and
the user miskeys the second password.  It complains about the mismatch,
does "rm -rf" on the data directory, and exits.  The problem is that
since commit c4a8812cf, there's a standalone backend sitting waiting
for commands at that point.  It gets unhappy about its datadir having
gone away, and spews a PANIC message at the user, which is not nice.
(And the shell then adds to the mess with meaningless bleating about a
core dump...)  We don't really want that sort of thing to happen unless
there's an internal failure in initdb, which this surely is not.

The best fix seems to be to move the collection of the password
earlier, so that it's done essentially as part of argument collection,
rather than at the rather ad-hoc time it was done before.

Back-patch to 9.6 where the problem was introduced.
2016-08-30 15:25:01 -04:00
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README

PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================

This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here:

	http://www.postgresql.org/download

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other
software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL
system.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
file COPYRIGHT.  A comprehensive documentation set is included in this
distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
instructions.

The latest version of this software may be obtained at
http://www.postgresql.org/download/.  For more information look at our
web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.