On 06/06/2018 09:16 AM, Amit Kapila wrote:
>
> > The second change the recipe makes is to disable the tablespace
> tests. On
> > Windows, when running as the Administrator, the application gives up
> > privilege to such an extent that the tablespace tests fail.
>
> Ohh. I was confused about why Windows was giving us fewer privileges
> when we had a more privileged account, but in fact *we* did that.
> Where does the privilege-giving-up happen?
>
>
> It happens during startup, see CreateRestrictedProcess in
> src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c.
>
>
Yeah, what seems quite odd, though, is that when run as an unprivileged
use the tablespace test runs just fine, but when run as a privileged
user it fails. If that's fixable we should fix it :-)
cheers
andrew
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