On Saturday, January 6, 2024, David G. Johnston <david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, January 6, 2024, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > >> >> geteuid() returns the effective user ID of the calling process. >> >> so it is not the owner of the data dirctory, but the installation user. >> >> I am open to saying that it is the owner of the data directory but we >> would then need to change initdb to do that, and we aren't going to >> backpatch that. >> > > So maybe a new defined term “cluster initializer”? > Or just the bit more verbose “user running the initdb command” and don’t bother giving it a label, which is basically the approach used in the description for initdb anyway. David J.
