[MADLIB-1174] Improve madpack user experience

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Madpack
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Orhan Kislal
• Created: 13/Nov/17 20:03
• Updated: 05/Jun/18 22:30

Description

1. madpack should behave like psql for connection options. E.g.:

• no host option provided = connect via a Unix-domain socket to a server on the local host, or via TCP/IP to localhost on machines that don't have Unix-domain sockets.
• -h /foo = unix socket connection for socket in /foo
• -h foo = tcp connection to foo
• The default user name is your operating-system user name, as is the default database name.
• Environment variables to use: PGDATABASE, PGHOST, PGPORT, PGUSER

There are two other JIRA's about the password requirements that might be related to this improvement: MADLIB-346, MADLIB-780

2. madpack should be able to install a subset of modules using a flag similar to the -t option in install-check.