On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Xiang Gan <xiang...@santaitech.com> writes: > > OK. So a stupid question, whether there is any possibility to run > Postgresql as root? (I know this is forbidden generally. But what I find > out is that in Linux FriendlyArm environment, root could create socket > while non-root user does not have such privilege) > Typically, applications open the port as root and then change to low privilege for the actual service. See also this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/413807/is-there-a-way-for-non-root-processes-to-bind-to-privileged-ports-1024-on-l
