Re: stderr & win32 admin check - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: stderr & win32 admin check
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Msg-id 3225.1087323038@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: stderr & win32 admin check  ("Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>)
Responses Re: stderr & win32 admin check  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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"Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:
> Well, that's kinda the point. If you are a hacker who has local admin
> privs (not exactly unusual on Windows networks - in some cases Power
> User group membership is required to run legacy software), you *cannot*
> run PostgreSQL except as a service, thus potentially making it a show
> stopper for those users.

So?  I don't follow why "run it as a service" isn't a sufficient answer,
and indeed the preferred way to do it.

            regards, tom lane

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