Tom Lane wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
>
>>I was asked on IRC just why we can't have user=postgres and
>>group=postgres in the postgresql.conf, and simply when we are run as
>>root, switch to that user and group.
>
>
> I should think that running as root up until sometime after we have read
> postgresql.conf would open up more security issues. It's certainly not
> a way to close this one...
>
postmaster could use postgres/postgres by default, overridable by
command line.
Regards,
Andreas