On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> What this all leads to is that it's safe to launch a postmaster from
> an init script via something like
> su - postgres sh -c "postmaster ..."
Surely you don't want "-"? If you run postgres's .profile etc. then
random user customization for the postgres user could interfere with
your startup process.
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greg
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