Re: No user being created during initdb for OS X

Andrew Dunstan wrote:

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>2. initdb will only create one user, as specified by -U and defaulting to
>the name of the user running initdb. Thus it will only ever create a user
>called postgres if '-U postgres' is specified, or
>if -U is not used and the user running initdb is called postgres.
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grammar fixed above so it makes sense

4. if you want to see what user(s) it knows about, shut down the
postmaster and run postgres in standalone mode like this:

echo 'select usename from pg_user' | /pathto/postgres -D /pathto/data
template1

cheers

andrew