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From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Enable pg_ctl to give up admin privileges when starting the
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Msg-id 20060211001220.GJ4474@ns.snowman.net
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* Tom Lane (tgl@postgresql.org) wrote:
> Enable pg_ctl to give up admin privileges when starting the server under
> Windows (if newer than NT4, else works same as before).

I don't suppose we could consider doing this for Unix-based systems too?
I think it'd certainly be nice.  It's also how quite a few other Unix
daemons operate.
Thanks,
    Stephen

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