[ADMIN] Another postgres user/group name possibble?

Hi, I've got a bit of a complicated problem here with a postgres user already existing on the network I'm on (and having /dev/null as its home). Is there a way I can something other than ``postgres'' as a name for the Postgres superuser and group name? I don't know why anybody would create a po

[ADMIN] Failed to compile 6.3.2 on solaris2.5.1

Hi, I tried to compile postgres 6.3.2 on a Sun sparc ultra 1 with solaris 2.5.1. but did not succeed. The tail of the log file looks like: End of search list. /usr/local/gcc-2.6.3/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.4/2.6.3/cc1 /var/tmp/cca004Pz.i -quiet -dumpbase y.tab.c -Wall -Wmissing-prototyp

[ADMIN] Re: float8 failed regression test.

After messing around with it I noticed that ./configure was using the "linux" template not the "linux-elf" template... I edited the linux-elf template to include '-m486' and then ran configure --with-template=linux-elf geometry still fails due to minor precision, no big deal. float8 does not f