> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > We could argue that Postgres is the super-user for the database, it
> > should be zero userid.
>
> Actually, that's quite a good thought --- is there *any* real need
> for initdb to extract the UID of the postgres user? What we do need,
> I think, is the *name* of the postgres user, which we might perhaps
> get with something like
>
> whoami 2>/dev/null || id -u -n 2>/dev/null || echo postgres
We currently have:
EffectiveUser=`id -n -u 2> /dev/null` || EffectiveUser=`whoami 2> /dev/null`
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