On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: > >> I'm not entirely sure about this one.. I'm not against it but I'm also >> not really 'for' it. :) > > 2 reasons: (a) if users need to CREATE USER, that *does* add an extra > step and they're more likely to just choose to grant to postgres > instead, (b) having a standard installed user (just like the user > "postgres" is standard) would make our docs, examples and tutorials much > easier to use.
If the user exists but is disabled by default, I'm not sure that really provides any advantage over not having it at all. And it certainly can't be enabled by default. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
