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Re: Seeming contradiction in 22.1

David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>

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From: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
To: maja zaloznik <maja.zaloznik@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2023-03-22T23:42:15Z
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On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 3:41 PM maja zaloznik <maja.zaloznik@gmail.com>
wrote:

> My issue is that - at least as far as i can recall - the default superuser
> was already named postgres
>

There is no compiled-in default for the name of the bootstrap superuser.
It is chosen during initdb using the algorithm described (i.e., o/s user
running initdb or the name specified on the CLI)

David J.

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