| From: | Basil Bourque <basil(dot)list(at)me(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Upgrading to 9.0 on Mac OS X |
| Date: | 2011-02-14 09:48:03 |
| Message-ID: | 0C3CE277-3560-4D8C-B5CB-E8E41255A640@me.com |
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>>> To be clear about the 2 passwords involved with Postgres on your Mac:
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>>> • The installer asks for your usual Mac admin account password, to get permission for 2 operations: (1) to install stuff on your computer and (2) to create a special Unix user account named (by default) 'postgres'.
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> Yes. What confused me is: The installer seems to change the passsword of an already existing postgres user on that machine to "". Did i understand that correctly? Should it really do that?
You originally posted that you are upgrading from Postgres 8.4.x to Postgres 9.0.x. I can't speak to that. But I can say: in upgrading between minor versions of 9.0.x, the 'postgres' user's password definitely does *not* change.
--Basil Bourque
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