On 08/26/2012 03:15 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
BTW, one idea that occurs to me is to bypass the problem by skipping the server's no-root-privileges check when the postmaster is given the -C switch. (This shouldn't pose a security hazard, since reading the config files is something a root-privileged caller could do anyway.) I don't immediately see a non-ugly way to do that in the current server code structure, but maybe somebody else will have an idea.
I had the same idea, and couldn't see a simple way to do it either. The trouble is that the check_root() call comes too early for us to do it cleanly. But I'll have another look.
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