Re: Fix for pg_upgrade user flag - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Fix for pg_upgrade user flag
Date
Msg-id 9693.1304790201@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Fix for pg_upgrade user flag  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Fix for pg_upgrade user flag  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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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.
        regards, tom lane


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