On 01/17/2018 06:51 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 09:15:06PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Probably the OP would not be very happy if the outcome of this discussion
>>> is that "initdb -U user" fails, but I am not seeing a principled reason
>>> why that should be allowed.
>
>> Me neither.
>
> Alternatively, we could consider removing all these artificial
> restrictions on what a username can be, and just expecting the DBA
> to know what he's doing. But what we've got right now is weirdly
> inconsistent.
+1
Joe
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