>>> To be clear about the 2 passwords involved with Postgres on your Mac: >>> >>> • The installer asks for your usual Mac admin account password, to get permission for 2 operations: (1) to install stuff on your computer and (2) to create a special Unix user account named (by default) 'postgres'. > > Yes. What confused me is: The installer seems to change the passsword of an already existing postgres user on that machine to "". Did i understand that correctly? Should it really do that? You originally posted that you are upgrading from Postgres 8.4.x to Postgres 9.0.x. I can't speak to that. But I can say: in upgrading between minor versions of 9.0.x, the 'postgres' user's password definitely does *not* change. --Basil Bourque -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
