On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 09:57:50PM -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 10/26/22 18:33, Bryn Llewellyn wrote: > > The descriptive designation "the role that owns the SQL part of the > > implementation of PostgreSQL" is too much of a mouthful for daily use. > > And anyway, this notion captures only part of the story that makes > > "postgres" uniquely what it is—at least on Ubuntu. > > > > MORE... > > > > Here's what my empirical observations told me: > > > > It's easy to characterize this role by describing the way that you get > > it and the conspicuous unique emergent properties that it has. > > > > * You specify its name using the flag that's shown thus in response to > > "initdb —help" > > > > -U, --username=NAME database superuser name > > How much time would it have taken to go to the docs?: > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-initdb.html I know I am replying late here, but isn't it the database _cluster_ superuser? -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com Embrace your flaws. They make you human, rather than perfect, which you will never be.
