Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 18:27:55 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: "Andrew V. Stesin" <stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postgres95 and FBSD 2.1R Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960111182349.250A-100000@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199601111503.RAA18735@office.elvisti.kiev.ua>
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On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, Andrew V. Stesin wrote: > FreeBSD already has a user 'ingres' out of the box. > Why not to use this? (assuming that 'ingres' is a "generic RDBMS > admin account"). While one could do that, it would be *exceedingly* rude for a port/package to do that. The ingres account is for the ingres RDBMS; it isn't generic. Installing postgres over ingres would be a disaster at the worst, and some time restoring from backup tapes at the best. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============
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