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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Default user 'postgres' not mentioned in the documentation?
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 11:17:08 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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PG Doc comments form <[email protected]> writes:
> I'm a newbie and may be asking stupid questions... but 
> shouldn't it be mentioned in the official documentation on this page
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/postgres-user.html
> that postgresql upon installation automatically creates a system-user that's
> called 'postgres' ?

No, because Postgres as distributed by us does no such thing.

Many vendors' packagings of Postgres create such a user (as is also
often true of their packagings of other service-type software).  But
it's up to the package's documentation to tell you about that.  Look
for a README-type file installed by the package.

			regards, tom lane

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