Gurjeet Singh wrote: > On Windows, if logged in as an Administrator, 'make check' fails with > our standard error, saying: > > <quote> > Execution of PostgreSQL by a user with administrative permissions is not > permitted. > The server must be started under an unprivileged user ID to prevent > possible system security compromises. See the documentation for > more information on how to properly start the server. > </quote> > > But, for some time now, a Windows' Administrator *can* run a postgres > without having to create a normal user; he just has to use pg_ctl to do > so. Thanks to code written by Magnus, pg_ctl gives up it's > administrative privilges before starting the postmaster, and hence the > postmaster runs without critical privileges. > > So I thought that 'make check' could also make use of that > functionality, and hence this patch.
Per previous discussion with Tom (in the archives, but I can't get there right now), this is the wrong way to do it. We lose the ability to kill the postmaster if it fails.
I have a proper working solution in my tree that I will submit soon along with the changes required to make pg_regress work in a non-msys environment using MSVC.
