Re: PgSQL not as Administrator - probs on w

> > In the win32 user's sight, the current implementation is very 
> > dogmatic. While there *has* to be some dogmatism about 
> security, IMHO 
> > in the case of account to run pgsql on this is up to the 
> > administrator, not us. We should recommend using a separate user, 
> > support it in the installer by default as comfortable as 
> possible, but 
> > enforcing it is regarded as non-native and thus suspicious in the
> > win32 world.
> >
> > Running as admin is so common for Windows, you'd never see 
> complaints 
> > about that aspect. Even programs *requiring* admin rights 
> are widely 
> > accepted (with some minor grumbling).
> >
> > It's another universe...
> >
> 
> I originally left the 'running as root/administrator' check 
> out of initdb for this reason.

Initdb opens a pipe to postgres.exe, no?. Which makes that kind of a
non-op, since it will just fail at a later time...


//Magnus


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