Re: somebody working on: Prevent default re-use of sysids for dropped users and groups?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: somebody working on: Prevent default re-use of sysids for dropped users and groups?
Date: 2004-12-11 20:20:58
Message-ID: 200412112120.58359.peter_e@gmx.net
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I had thought that maybe we shouldn't track dependencies on the first
> superuser, on the assumption that it cannot be dropped. I'm not sure
> if this is entirely true however.

Well, there are certainly nontrivial provisions for recovering
installations where it has been dropped. So why deprive users of that
fun?

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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