| From: | Peter Eisentraut <e99re41(at)DoCS(dot)UU(dot)SE> |
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| To: | Keith Parks <emkxp01(at)mtcc(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] initdb problems on Solaris |
| Date: | 2000-01-20 11:18:11 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.GSO.4.02A.10001201215470.15489-100000@Puma.DoCS.UU.SE |
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Keith Parks wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I know that the whole "id" thing in initdb is a can of worms.
> We have pg_id but we don't want to use it, every system has
> a different version/variety of whoami/"who am i"/id.
>
> We don't need/want to use the unix ID of the user, but we do
> when we can. The whole thing is a mess!!
Can you be more specific in regards to what doesn't work, what needs
fixing, etc.?
>
> One thing we need to do is change the default, "if all else
> fails" id from 0 to something else, as 0 is specifically
> disallowed and causes an "Abort" in postgres when bootstrapping.
--
Peter Eisentraut Sernanders vaeg 10:115
peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net 75262 Uppsala
http://yi.org/peter-e/ Sweden
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