Re: OS X Install

From: Dan Sugalski <dan(at)sidhe(dot)org>
To: John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com>, David Teran <david(dot)teran(at)cluster9(dot)com>
Cc: Nathan Mealey <nathan(at)cycle-smart(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: OS X Install
Date: 2004-10-21 14:14:38
Message-ID: a0620050abd9d749bd5d2@[10.0.1.5]
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At 9:20 AM -0400 10/21/04, John DeSoi wrote:
>On Oct 21, 2004, at 4:43 AM, David Teran wrote:
>
>>One thing is for sure: MacOS X, neither panther (10.3) nor jaguar
>>(10.2) have a user named 'postgres' as default. And Apple Remote
>>Desktop 2.x which uses internally a postgres 7.3.2 database to
>>store statistic data does not use the postgres user afaik, it uses
>>root...
>
>I'll take your word for it. I just can't recall creating one, yet it
>was there. Maybe from something I did with fink. I see a mysql user
>also. I know I did not create or install that :).

Fink creates a postgres user, amongst others, as part of the base
install. (Well, it's one of the strongly suggested packages, but
close enough since pretty much everyone puts it in)
--
Dan

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