On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 3:54 PM, oleg yusim <olegyusim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Answer "postgres" would suffice. But the user would not always be "postgres". To be accurate, it is the user which owns the files for the "cluster" (database instance) and which runs the database service. If a machine contains multiple clusters it is (IMO) best practice, for both security and operational reasons, to use a separate OS user for each cluster. -- Kevin Grittner EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
