Re: [HACKERS] initdb problems on Solaris

From: Keith Parks <emkxp01(at)mtcc(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: emkxp01(at)mtcc(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
Cc: hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] initdb problems on Solaris
Date: 2000-01-20 08:39:03
Message-ID: 200001200839.IAA17493@mtcc.demon.co.uk
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Agreed,

Either way, it's broken now and needs fixing.

Keith.

>Actually, I see no reason why the superuser's Postgres ID number
>shouldn't default to 0. If there's code in there to reject that,
>isn't it doing the wrong thing?
>
>The postmaster and backend can and should refuse to run with an
>effective Unix userid of 0 (root), but that doesn't mean that
>a Postgres ID of 0 is insecure, does it?
>
> regards, tom lane

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