From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jan 11 15:29:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA04880 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 15:29:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA04873 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 15:29:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jfieber@localhost) by fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA00295; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 18:27:55 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 18:27:55 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu To: "Andrew V. Stesin" cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postgres95 and FBSD 2.1R In-Reply-To: <199601111503.RAA18735@office.elvisti.kiev.ua> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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 ============