On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Zeugswetter Andreas OSB sIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The user running initdb (or the postmaster) needs >> SeCreateGlobalPrivilege - which is something we cannot really start > > Why not ? Doesn't the pg installer already tweak the permissions of the > installation user. On XP you can connect to session 0, so that is an > alternative on XP.
It does, but that's not the user running initdb. >> 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. > > Hm? non-console is the default for remote, and all you can get in Vista/2008 > and up. I didn't realise you couldn't get console on Vista/2K8. Guess I've spent too much time on Macs in the last couple of years :-) > The reason it should be in the Global namespace is that shmem is one part of > detecting an existing postmaster. Especially in situations where the db is > started > by hand, the protection against duplicate startup is important. Yeah, as Magnus reminded me. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
