Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] 'pgsql/src/bin/initdb initdb.sh'

On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Update of /usr/local/cvsroot/pgsql/src/bin/initdb
> > > > In directory hub.org:/tmp/cvs-serv23999/bin/initdb
> > > > 
> > > > Modified Files:
> > > > 	initdb.sh 
> > > > Log Message:
> > > > 
> > > > Modify initdb.sh so that it makes pg_user readable through view db_user
> > > > Modify psql so that it uses db_user instead of pg_user
> > > > GRANT SELECT on pg_class
> > > 
> > > I don't know if I like the new name db_user?  What do other people
> > > think?  I thought pg_user_no_pwd would be nice.
> > 
> > 
> > create view pg_users as ...
> > ERROR:  Illegal class name: pg_users -- pg_ is reserved for system catalogs
> 
> Oops, yep.
> 
> I guess I just liked that the pg_ stuff was all system stuff.  Do you
> get this error when creating it from postgres, as initdb does?  That
> would be a solution.  Worked here.

	My thought was more splitting the difference between a system
table (pg_) vs system view (db_) *shrug*  Okay, I was grasping here :)