Agreed,
Either way, it's broken now and needs fixing.
Keith.
>Actually, I see no reason why the superuser's Postgres ID number
>shouldn't default to 0. If there's code in there to reject that,
>isn't it doing the wrong thing?
>
>The postmaster and backend can and should refuse to run with an
>effective Unix userid of 0 (root), but that doesn't mean that
>a Postgres ID of 0 is insecure, does it?
>
> regards, tom lane
