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Subject: postgres should *test* for user postgres
From: Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com>
Date: 08 Jan 1997 17:23:10 -0500
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package: postgres95
version: 1.01-1

postgres stops and prompts from preinst for the user to check that
user postgres exists.  Can't it just test directly, either with grep
/etc/passwd or finger or something indirect if it must?  Or is
something more subtle needed?