On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:23:00PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Hm, that patch seems to be several bricks shy of a load. I will fix >> two obvious bugs in it: >> >> (1) not dump core on boxes where printf("%s", NULL) dumps core; >> >> (2) not try to call adjust_data_dir before complaining for lack of >> a -D switch; since adjust_data_dir does not do anything to the value >> of pg_config, it's just silly to do things in that order. >> >> However, >> >> > I note that "postgres -C data_directory" will refuse to run on the >> > command line because I've got admin privileges in Windows, and that >> > pg_ctl normally starts postgres.exe using CreateRestrictedProcess. >> > But it does not do so for the popen call in adjust_data_dir. >> >> if that actually is a third bug, as seems likely, somebody with access >> to a windows environment will need to deal with it. > > I think you have to use RUNAS when using 'pg_ctl' or 'postgres' on Windows.
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