> david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> b...@yugabyte.com wrote: >> >> This invariant must hold if an "ordinary" within-cluster superuser is to >> qualify as the cluster's "bootstrap superuser": >> >> the name of the bootstrap superuser's within-cluster role >> >> AND >> >> the name of the O/S user that owns lots of (but not all*) the software files >> that define the PostgreSQL RDBMS, together with the various files that >> represent what users create >> >> are identical. > > Nope, the name of the bootstrap user is the one supplied to initdb via the > --username argument. Period. It need not match any name on the host > operating system and it will still be the bootstrap superuser's role name. > > Yes, the description for --username probably should be modified to read: > > "Selects the user name of the cluster's bootstrap superuser." Or just > consider a "cluster superuser" the term d'art...since most people would just > refer to any old role having superuser authorization as being plain ole > "superuser". The fact that is says "database superuser" is the same holdover > effect as the fact that "init db" means "init database" even though it > actually initializes a cluster.
Thanks again, David. And once again, all is clear now.
