| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)wallace(dot)ece(dot)rice(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] initdb problems on Solaris |
| Date: | 2000-01-22 14:24:05 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.21.0001202302520.349-100000@localhost.localdomain |
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On 2000-01-20, Ross J. Reedstrom mentioned:
> Peter -
> If you're going to look at the id for initdb, please consider the
> NT port as well. This may be more of a problem with cygwin than pgsql,
> but pg_id didn't work correctly, and I had to hack on the initdb script
> to get it to to run, with a 6.5.3 install, recently.
Oh dear, I just wrote a new pg_id thingy that fulfills all my initdb
wishes (no id, not whoami vs 'who am i', no Solaris stupidities), but
what's now? How does NT/Cygwin handle it? Don't they have a geteuid()
function? Feel free to hack up pg_id to always return 42 in that case.
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Peter Eisentraut Sernanders väg 10:115
peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net 75262 Uppsala
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