From: | Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, eshkinkot(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: BUG #15006: "make check" error if current user is "user" |
Date: | 2018-01-18 16:39:14 |
Message-ID: | c65de81a-7a9c-c26e-bb44-97164d2ac7e9@joeconway.com |
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On 01/17/2018 06:51 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 09:15:06PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Probably the OP would not be very happy if the outcome of this discussion
>>> is that "initdb -U user" fails, but I am not seeing a principled reason
>>> why that should be allowed.
>
>> Me neither.
>
> Alternatively, we could consider removing all these artificial
> restrictions on what a username can be, and just expecting the DBA
> to know what he's doing. But what we've got right now is weirdly
> inconsistent.
+1
Joe
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