"Nauman Naeem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I tried the single-user mode option and it worked, thanks! but, don't
> you people think that we should provide this privilege in multi-user
> mode as well.In accordence to my second point.

No.  Restricting what a superuser can do is pointless --- he can always
manage to shoot himself in the foot if he tries hard enough.  (Consider
eg "DELETE FROM pg_authid".)  Trying to fix it in the reverse direction
(re-establishing superuser after the last one's been deleted) has
obvious security issues.

The problem comes up sufficiently seldom that the single-user-mode
backdoor seems sufficient.

                        regards, tom lane

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