Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > One question I have is why we even bother to allow the database username
> > to be specified? Shouldn't we just hard-code that to 'postgres'?
>
> Only if you want to render pg_upgrade unusable by a significant fraction
> of people. "postgres" is not the hard wired name of the bootstrap
> superuser.
I was really wondering if I should be using that hard-coded name, rather
than allowing the user to supply it. They have to compile in a
different name, and I assume that name is accessible somewhere.
-- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB
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