Re: BUG #15006: "make check" error if current user is "user"

On 01/11/2018 01:53 PM, PG Bug reporting form wrote:
> The following bug has been logged on the website:
>
> Bug reference: 15006
> Logged by: Sergey Burladyan
> Email address: eshkinkot(at)gmail(dot)com
> PostgreSQL version: 10.1
> Operating system: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) in docker
> Description:
>
> I run tests in docker with current system user "user" and "make check" stop
> with error:
> ...
> updatable_views ... ok
> rolenames ... FAILED
> roleattributes ... ok
> ...
>

Hmmm ... I'm having this issue too (my distribution uses "user"
internally for the default user). Over time I managed to convince myself
it's not really a PostgreSQL bug, but rather a strange choice of OS user
name. And I've been simply ignoring this particular regression failure
on my laptop.

But maybe we could/should fix it anyway? Most regression tests switched
to roles prefixed with regress_* so why not to do the same here?

Of course, a particularly strange distribution could still pick a
conflicting OS name, but that seems rather unlikely, I guess.

regards

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