* Nikolay Sturm wrote: > * Marc Balmer [2006-03-04]: > > installing the server package. The database administrator username > > will be postgres, as recommended by the PostgreSQL developers. The > > uid under which the software is installed will not change. > > The namespace for ports is _name, please explain why postgresql needs to > be an exception to the rule.
the uid will not change. postgres is a username internal to the database system. everything gets installed as _postgresql. > > > The initial database that is created using initdb when the package is > > installed will now prompt for a password for the DBA user. Until now we > > simply trusted every user connecting from localhost. > > No way, this will break bulk builds. This is now obsolete as the port will not create a default database at install time but rather give advice on how to so in a secure manner.
