Re: In what situations do you use -U of initdb?

Thanks. I didn't even imagine such a situation.

I'd like to hear other cases like:

- Packaged applications (not OS) that embeds or uses PostgreSQL
- The corporate environment where some security policy is enforced that the OS user and the database administrator user must be different

Regards
Takayuki Tsunakawa

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> To: Tsunakawa, Takayuki/綱川 貴之
> Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] In what situations do you use -U of initdb?
>
> Package systems which create an automatic user account for your
> postgresql instance, for example in OpenBSD:
>
> system user: _postgresql (in accordance to OpenBSD ports rules)
> db user: postgres
>
> I always use:
>
> initdb -U postgres
>
> Because that's what everyone expects it to be...
>