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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: stderr & win32 admin check
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Msg-id 824.1087307888@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: stderr & win32 admin check  ("Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>)
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"Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net> writes:
>> "Can't run Postgres securely" would be a more-than-sufficient
>> reason not to support NT4, IMHO.

> It could still be run on NT4 under the following conditions:
> 1) Running as a service
> 2) Running if the user logged in is not an administrator.

Well, isn't "running as a service" sufficient?  I thought that was the
only interesting case for non-hackers anyway.

As long as you get an error message that's reasonably clear about what
you can do instead, this hardly seems like a showstopper...

            regards, tom lane

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