Re: 8.3 .4 + Vista + MingW + initdb = ACCESS_DENIED - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dave Page
Subject Re: 8.3 .4 + Vista + MingW + initdb = ACCESS_DENIED
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Msg-id 937d27e10810140741j320cd1c2m919fb846d82d73dd@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: 8.3 .4 + Vista + MingW + initdb = ACCESS_DENIED  ("Robert Haas" <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: 8.3 .4 + Vista + MingW + initdb = ACCESS_DENIED
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On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The user running initdb (or the postmaster) needs
>> SeCreateGlobalPrivilege - which is something we cannot really start
>> telling people they must have. My view is that we revert the change
>> (well, replace it with something that looks less like a broken attempt
>> to use the global namespace) and leave it at that. iirc, the use of
>> the global namespace is there to ensure things work as they should
>> under a non-console terminal services session - which is pretty rare
>> and can usually be avoided.
>
> I'm not so sure that non-console terminal service sessions should be
> categorized as "pretty rare".
>
> I use them routinely.

For installing and running Postgres? Note that we're not talking about
running clients apps here, but the server itself.

-- 
Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK:   http://www.enterprisedb.com


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