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From Shreesha
Subject How to modify the postgresql source code and build it?
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Msg-id CAPBNhTwUxRp+bVKWd_adCre7Dsd38Awj9UxewhG1rpv3q96SWw@mail.gmail.com
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Responses Re: How to modify the postgresql source code and build it?  (Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>)
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Hello,
I need to initialize the db as the root and start the database server. In order to accomplish this, I modified the initdb.c source file of pgsql package and tried to compile it. Eventhough the build was successful, I couldn't see the root user able to execute initdb executable generated by the build. I wanted to know if there is any other procedure for building the postgresql procedure?

Thanks 
Shreesha.

P.S
Below is the changes done in initdb.c (shown in bold letters below)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
static char *
get_id(void)
{
#ifndef WIN32

        struct passwd *pw;

//      if (geteuid() == 0)                     /* 0 is root's uid */
/*      {
                fprintf(stderr,
                                _("%s: cannot be run as root\n"
                                  "Please log in (using, e.g., \"su\") as the "
                                  "(unprivileged) user that will\n"
                                  "own the server process.\n"),
                                progname);
                exit(1);
        }
*/
...
}

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