| From: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: initdb username doc bug |
| Date: | 2024-01-07 03:34:57 |
| Message-ID: | CAKFQuwadqy=7mhh8usoV=yNvrsEg48tUhB31PAPsVFW7vqfeLA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Saturday, January 6, 2024, David G. Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:
> On Saturday, January 6, 2024, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>
>>
>> geteuid() returns the effective user ID of the calling process.
>>
>> so it is not the owner of the data dirctory, but the installation user.
>>
>> I am open to saying that it is the owner of the data directory but we
>> would then need to change initdb to do that, and we aren't going to
>> backpatch that.
>>
>
> So maybe a new defined term “cluster initializer”?
>
Or just the bit more verbose “user running the initdb command” and don’t
bother giving it a label, which is basically the approach used in the
description for initdb anyway.
David J.
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