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Re: ipcclean in 8.1 broken?

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-03-03T18:39:55Z
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> (I'm not finding it right now, but I'm pretty sure that the SUS
> >> specifies that numeric userid == 0 for superuser, whereas "root" is not
> >> required to be the name, so this would be more correct anyway.)
> 
> > Can we assume 'id' is on all unix systems?
> 
> What's your point?  The script fails anyway if that bit doesn't work.

Is 'id' better than what we have now if 'id' isn't widely supported?

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