Re: [HACKERS] Re: initdb.sh fixed

> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > We could argue that Postgres is the super-user for the database, it
> > should be zero userid.
>
> Actually, that's quite a good thought --- is there *any* real need
> for initdb to extract the UID of the postgres user? What we do need,
> I think, is the *name* of the postgres user, which we might perhaps
> get with something like
>
> whoami 2>/dev/null || id -u -n 2>/dev/null || echo postgres

We currently have:

EffectiveUser=`id -n -u 2> /dev/null` || EffectiveUser=`whoami 2> /dev/null`

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