Re: Seeming contradiction in 22.1
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: maja zaloznik <maja.zaloznik@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2023-10-10T19:28:31Z
Lists: pgsql-docs
On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 06:11:44PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 05:45:03PM +0100, maja zaloznik wrote: > > Thanks David, this is very helpful! > > > > I would have to agree with Tom, that while technically true, the text could be > > reworded. namely it was not obvious to me that i had used a 'packager' to > > install the clusters and therefore was doing something outside the purview of > > the postgres documentation. > > > > To me the last sentence would be clearer if it read something like: > > > > "Most packagers will name this role `postgres` by default, but this is not > > required". > > > > That way it avoids the passive tense which leaves some ambiguity as to who or > > what and when is naming this superuser. > > I think the paragraph was trying to do too much so I simplified it, > patch attached. Patch applied to PG 16. I didn't go further because this is only a clarification, rather than missing or incorrect information, and the patch didn't cleanly apply to PG 15. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com Only you can decide what is important to you.
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