Re: [HACKERS] pg_id and pg_encoding

2003-09-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 16:46, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > > Is there any reason to keep separate pg_id and pg_encoding programs, or > > should they be merged into a C version of initdb? AFAICS initdb is the > > only thing that uses them. > > Yes, I assume they would go awa

Re: [HACKERS] pg_id and pg_encoding

2003-09-07 Thread Andreas Pflug
Gaetano Mendola wrote: Work as non-root is a good practice for windows user too, I'll not bet for the future that on windows all users will be "super user"; you can choose to start a service like a non super user too, I'd like to mantain the same policy on windows too. We're talking about

Re: [HACKERS] pg_id and pg_encoding

2003-09-07 Thread Gaetano Mendola
"Andreas Pflug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > >>We'll also need to decide the Windows equivalent of the 'don't run as > >>root' rule - or even if we want to enforce it at all, given that it > >>appears to be very common practice on Windows to run all services as a > >>us

Re: [HACKERS] pg_id and pg_encoding

2003-09-07 Thread Andreas Pflug
Bruce Momjian wrote: We'll also need to decide the Windows equivalent of the 'don't run as root' rule - or even if we want to enforce it at all, given that it appears to be very common practice on Windows to run all services as a user with Administrator privileges. I assume we will relax t

Re: [HACKERS] pg_id and pg_encoding

2003-09-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > Is there any reason to keep separate pg_id and pg_encoding programs, or > should they be merged into a C version of initdb? AFAICS initdb is the > only thing that uses them. Yes, I assume they would go away with a C version. > We'll also need to decide the Windows equ

[HACKERS] pg_id and pg_encoding

2003-09-07 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Is there any reason to keep separate pg_id and pg_encoding programs, or should they be merged into a C version of initdb? AFAICS initdb is the only thing that uses them. We'll also need to decide the Windows equivalent of the 'don't run as root' rule - or even if we want to enforce it at all, g