I am incredibly interested in this.
In the first place, I did not load postgres from the command line as
you do here. I double-clicked. I also do not remember seeing the
usage options.
That being said, now that I have downloaded and installed the system,
how can I change:
--serviceaccount <serviceaccount> Sets the operating system user
account that owns the server process. Defaults to 'postgres'.
Default: postgres
Or, in fact, must I re-install to change this? It looks like I have
to re-install.
Thank you very much for responding to my questions. I truly
appreciate it. Your support is welcome and superb.
John
On Apr 2, 2010, at 9:52 AM, Sachin Srivastava wrote:
Thats what i get:
edbs-MacBook:~ sachin$ hdiutil attach postgresql-8.4.3-1-osx.dmg
expected CRC32 $F9B026D4
/dev/disk1 Apple_partition_scheme
/dev/disk1s1 Apple_partition_map
/dev/disk1s2 Apple_HFS /Volumes/
PostgreSQL 8.4.3-1
edbs-MacBook:~ sachin$ sudo /Volumes/PostgreSQL\ 8.4.3-1/
postgresql-8.4.3-1-osx.app/Contents/MacOS/installbuilder.sh --help
Password:
PostgreSQL 8.4
Usage:
--help Display the list of valid options
--version Display product information
--optionfile <optionfile> Installation option file
Default:
--unattendedmodeui <unattendedmodeui> Unattended Mode UI
Default: none
Allowed: none minimal
minimalWithDialogs
--debuglevel <debuglevel> Debug information level of verbosity
Default: 2
Allowed: 0 1 2 3 4
--mode <mode> Installation mode
Default: qt
Allowed: qt osx text unattended
--debugtrace <debugtrace> Debug filename
Default:
--installer-language <installer-language> Language selection
Default:
Allowed: en es
--extract-only <extract-only>
Default: 0
--superaccount <superaccount> Sets the user name of the database
superuser. Defaults to 'postgres'.
Default: postgres
--servicename <servicename> servicename.description
Default: postgresql-8.4
--serviceaccount <serviceaccount> Sets the operating system user
account that owns the server process. Defaults to 'postgres'.
Default: postgres
--create_shortcuts <create_shortcuts> Specifies whether or not menu
shortcuts should be created.
Default: 1
--prefix <prefix> Installation Directory
Default: /Library/PostgreSQL/8.4
--datadir <datadir> Data Directory
Default: /Library/PostgreSQL/8.4/data
--superpassword <superpassword> Password
Default:
--serverport <serverport> Port
Default: 5432
--locale <locale> Locale
Default:
--install_plpgsql <install_plpgsql> Install pl/pgsql in template1
database?
Default: 1
On 4/2/10 1:14 PM, John Gage wrote:
There is a CLI option where? Forgive my ignorance, please. Does
it appear in the one-click installer?
John
On Apr 2, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Sachin Srivastava wrote:
There is a CLI option --serviceaccount <username> which a user can
use to make any user the owner of postgres service and data files.
Also, if you choose 'postgres' as the service account and the
'postgres' user doesn't exist. The installer will create postgres
as a 'locked' user account. Thats the reason you dont see
'postgres' listed as any other normal user. These steps were taken
to enhance the security of the data folder.
Again, anytime a user is free to use any account as the service
account and not use 'postgres'.
On 4/2/10 12:37 PM, John Gage wrote:
Then I don't understand why the installer doesn't do the same
thing.
Or, in the alternative, why it doesn't ask you what you want
these parameters to be.
I would say that, typically, someone installing postgres does it,
conceivably, as root or, more likely, as a user.
What he or she doesn't do is install it as user 'postgres'.
Yet, that is what the one-click installer does. I do not believe
that this is intuitive. What is more, gratuitiously adding a
user to the system doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense.
In addition, all other one-click installations on the Mac either
don't ask for root privileges, because they don't need them, or
ask for them, but still install under the current user. Some
installations will even ask whether you want the application
usable by all users of the machine or just you.
But none, repeat none, create a new user.
What is more, through standard unix commands such as "who" or
"cat /etc/passwd", I cannot find the user 'postgres' on my
machine...even though he is the owner of the Postgres data
files...on my machine.
There's the rub. 'postgres' owns files...my files...on my
machine, yet he is not on my machine. Not good.
I should add that I am an accolyte of Postgres and am only
raising this (possible) issue in the most positive spirit I am
capable of. In addition, I think that the people on this list
are superb, and the responses are unbelievably helpful and
accurate.
John
On Apr 2, 2010, at 8:29 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
John Gage wrote:
The 8.4.2 documentation says:
"The default user name is your Unix user name, as is the
default database name."
when you as a user connect to the database server the commands
like psql, pg_dump, etc all use your unix username as the
default for the database username, and your username as teh
default for the database name, unless you specify a different
user and/or database on hte command line.
--
Regards,
Sachin Srivastava
EnterpriseDB, the Enterprise Postgres company.
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Regards,
Sachin Srivastava
EnterpriseDB, the Enterprise Postgres company.
