Fabien COELHO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The actual simple fix would be that user ids should NOT be reused by > default. The problem is that I don't think the already used userids are > kept anywhere, even as a sequence.
In the last discussion of this issue, I think we had agreed in principle that it'd be a good idea to use a cluster-wide sequence generator to assign default user and group ids. Nobody's got round to making it happen though. While I don't see any fundamental technical reason why a sequence object couldn't be relisshared, there's no way to create such a sequence in the present code --- bringing the thing into being during initdb would certainly be the major bit of work needed to make it happen. (I have some vague recollection that we discussed how to do that during the last go-round --- if you want to work on this, it'd be a good idea to look in the archives first.) regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster