Re: Upgrading to 9.0 on Mac OS X

From: Maximilian Tyrtania <lists(at)contactking(dot)de>
To: Basil Bourque <basil(dot)list(at)me(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Sachin Srivastava <sachin(dot)srivastava(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Upgrading to 9.0 on Mac OS X
Date: 2011-02-14 06:30:41
Message-ID: D22AFDD6-B66E-4B76-A296-364EE05ABD9B@contactking.de
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> On Feb 14, 2011, at 4:42 AM, Basil Bourque wrote:
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>> To be clear about the 2 passwords involved with Postgres on your Mac:
>>
>> • 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'.

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?

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