Re: Mysql -> Postgresql pitfalls

On Monday 04 August 2003 13:54, Chad N. Tindel wrote:
> True.  There are good reasons to not run apache as root.  There are also
> perfectly valid reasons to run it as root, for such users who want to make
> an informed decision.

Name one.

> My posts to the list are not going through.  I am NOT advocating running
> postmaster as root.  I never was.

No, you're advocating giving that option.  We have chosen to not be the
instrument of an admin shooting themselves in the foot.

> I don't think there is a non-condescending way to tell an administrator
> that you think you know what is better for their operating environment than
> they do.

Yes, there are.  MySQL does it all the time. "You don't need
{transactions|foreign keys|subqueries|feature of the day they don't have}."
People don't seem to mind that.  We have other reasons, IIRC.
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Lamar Owen
Director of Information Technology
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute