Thanks. I didn't even imagine such a situation. I'd like to hear other cases like: - Packaged applications (not OS) that embeds or uses PostgreSQL - The corporate environment where some security policy is enforced that the OS user and the database administrator user must be different Regards Takayuki Tsunakawa > -----Original Message----- > From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Abel Abraham > Camarillo Ojeda > Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 2:01 PM > To: Tsunakawa, Takayuki/綱川 貴之 > Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: In what situations do you use -U of initdb? > > Package systems which create an automatic user account for your > postgresql instance, for example in OpenBSD: > > system user: _postgresql (in accordance to OpenBSD ports rules) > db user: postgres > > I always use: > > initdb -U postgres > > Because that's what everyone expects it to be... > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
