Re: pg_id and pg_encoding

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.
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>I assume we will relax that for Win32.  I don't think non-Administrators
>have the same isolation on Win32 as non-root users have on Unix.
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While it's best practice for *ix to work as non-root, many windows users 
will be administrator-equivalent. The "Local System account" commonly 
used to run services is even more privileged than the local admin. So 
the restriction to non-admins won't make too much sense.

Regards,
Andreas