From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jianghua Yang <yjhjstz@gmail.com>
cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] initdb: Treat empty -U argument as unset username
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Jianghua Yang <yjhjstz@gmail.com> writes:
> I wanted to ask if this patch can be merged first, as it seems to be a
> separate issue different from the aclitem parsing problem Tom discussed in
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/3792884.1751492172%40sss.pgh.pa.us

Merging your patch will make it more difficult to poke at these
underlying issues, so I'm not in a hurry to do that.  It's not
like this is an urgent issue: initdb has behaved like that for
years if not decades, and nobody's complained before.

			regards, tom lane