From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | maja zaloznik <maja(dot)zaloznik(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Seeming contradiction in 22.1 |
Date: | 2023-10-10 19:28:31 |
Message-ID: | ZSWl383HOL6-PTdW@momjian.us |
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On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 06:11:44PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 05:45:03PM +0100, maja zaloznik wrote:
> > Thanks David, this is very helpful!
> >
> > I would have to agree with Tom, that while technically true, the text could be
> > reworded. namely it was not obvious to me that i had used a 'packager' to
> > install the clusters and therefore was doing something outside the purview of
> > the postgres documentation.
> >
> > To me the last sentence would be clearer if it read something like:
> >
> > "Most packagers will name this role `postgres` by default, but this is not
> > required".
> >
> > That way it avoids the passive tense which leaves some ambiguity as to who or
> > what and when is naming this superuser.
>
> I think the paragraph was trying to do too much so I simplified it,
> patch attached.
Patch applied to PG 16. I didn't go further because this is only a
clarification, rather than missing or incorrect information, and the
patch didn't cleanly apply to PG 15.
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