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Re: Fix for pg_upgrade user flag

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-05-07T20:48:14Z
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On lör, 2011-05-07 at 13:50 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I was really wondering if I should be using that hard-coded name,
> rather than allowing the user to supply it.  They have to compile in a
> different name, and I assume that name is accessible somewhere.

"postgres" is not compiled in.  It's whatever user you run initdb under.
In particular, in the regression tests, it is probably not "postgres".