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Give a proper error message if initdb password file is empty.
Used to say just "could not read password from file "...": Success", which isn't very informative. Mats Erik Andersson. Backpatch to all supported versions.
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src/bin/initdb/initdb.c

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@@ -1663,8 +1663,12 @@ get_set_pwd(void)
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}
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if (!fgets(pwdbuf, sizeof(pwdbuf), pwf))
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{
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fprintf(stderr, _("%s: could not read password from file \"%s\": %s\n"),
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progname, pwfilename, strerror(errno));
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if (ferror(pwf))
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fprintf(stderr, _("%s: could not read password from file \"%s\": %s\n"),
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progname, pwfilename, strerror(errno));
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else
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fprintf(stderr, _("%s: password file \"%s\" is empty\n"),
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progname, pwfilename);
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exit_nicely();
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}
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fclose(pwf);

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