Re: [HACKERS] initdb problems on Solaris

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Keith Parks wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I know that the whole "id" thing in initdb is a can of worms.
> We have pg_id but we don't want to use it, every system has 
> a different version/variety of whoami/"who am i"/id.
> 
> We don't need/want to use the unix ID of the user, but we do
> when we can. The whole thing is a mess!!

Can you be more specific in regards to what doesn't work, what needs
fixing, etc.?

> 
> One thing we need to do is change the default, "if all else
> fails" id from 0 to something else, as 0 is specifically 
> disallowed and causes an "Abort" in postgres when bootstrapping.

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