initdb and xpg_user

I have a xpg_user file all my database directories.

Hands off - this is my bug :-)

Seems initdb is creating it. Any way to prevent it from being created?

Add a

mv $PGDATA/base/template1/xpg_user $PGDATA/base/template1/pg_user

after the UPDATE pg_class renaming xpg_user to pg_user in initdb.

But this showed up another FEATURE! If you remove a tables file,
the next time it is accessed it is recreated empty! I think this
is not right, because after a system crash, a database file (I
know, very unlikely) could reside in lost+found. It's IMHO not
good to assume the table is empty and recreate the file silent.

Jan

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I have a xpg_user file all my database directories.

Hands off - this is my bug :-)

Seems initdb is creating it. Any way to prevent it from being created?

Add a

mv $PGDATA/base/template1/xpg_user $PGDATA/base/template1/pg_user

after the UPDATE pg_class renaming xpg_user to pg_user in initdb.

But this showed up another FEATURE! If you remove a tables file,
the next time it is accessed it is recreated empty! I think this
is not right, because after a system crash, a database file (I
know, very unlikely) could reside in lost+found. It's IMHO not
good to assume the table is empty and recreate the file silent.

Patch applied.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

*** ./bin/initdb/initdb.sh.orig	Mon Mar 16 00:55:12 1998
--- ./bin/initdb/initdb.sh	Mon Mar 16 00:57:25 1998
***************
*** 367,375 ****
--- 367,382 ----
  	    valuntil	abstime);" |\
  	postgres -F -Q -D$PGDATA template1 2>&1 > /dev/null |\
  	grep -v "'DEBUG:"
+ 
+ #move it into pg_user
  echo "UPDATE pg_class SET relname = 'pg_user' WHERE relname = 'xpg_user';" |\
  	postgres -F -Q -D$PGDATA template1 2>&1 > /dev/null |\
  	grep -v "'DEBUG:"
+ echo "UPDATE pg_type SET typname = 'pg_user' WHERE typname = 'xpg_user';" |\
+ 	postgres -F -Q -D$PGDATA template1 2>&1 > /dev/null |\
+ 	grep -v "'DEBUG:"
+ mv $PGDATA/base/template1/xpg_user $PGDATA/base/template1/pg_user
+ 
  echo "CREATE RULE _RETpg_user AS ON SELECT TO pg_user DO INSTEAD	\
  	    SELECT usename, usesysid, usecreatedb, usetrace,		\
  	           usesuper, usecatupd, '********'::text as passwd,	\

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