Re: PgSQL not as Administrator - probs on windows

On 1 Jul 2004 at 6:55, Harald Armin Massa wrote:

> it is MUCH MORE common to have Administrator-Privileges when running a
> Windows-System than when running Unix. BECAUSE a lot of programs DO NOT
> WORK if you do not have these privileges.
>
> Especially home-users usually have their default user working as
> Administrator.
>
> I recommend that we add an option to "do not check for Administrator, I
> know I do something dangerous" for windows; at least when starting
> Postgresql from the command line.
>

I agree. Dictating what the user can or can't do on their own machine is not nice. If
the user wants to format his hard disk then let him. Warn him a lot, but still let him.
As long as the user is made aware of the consequences then that is as far as it
should go.

Unfortunately I can't run my normal development user without admin privileges as
quite a bit of the testing needs privileges for registry, files, debugging etc..

In the mean time you can use the runas command (at least in XP)

i.e

C:\pgsql> runas /user:gary\test "postmaster -i"

or whatever...

Cheers,
Gary.