Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> Probably initdb should have its own check for being run as root;
>> this seems cleaner than reorganizing the checks in the postgres
>> executable.
> I does have that check, but unfortunately that check requires pg_id, and
> finding the right pg_id requires finding the right postgres. The "right
> pg_id" is not entirely as trivial as it sounds, because pg_id's from <=6.5
> have very different behaviour.
Um. Okay then, the alternatives are
(1) move the handling of --version out of PostgresMain and friends, and
put it into main.c before the are-we-root check;
(2) move the are-we-root check out of main.c and duplicate it in
PostgresMain and friends.
Which choice do you like best?
regards, tom lane