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



Thu, 20 Jan 2000 08:39:03 +0000 (GMT)
Keith Parks <emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk>
Re: [HACKERS] initdb problems on Solaris 