On 08/26/2012 03:15 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> BTW, one idea that occurs to me is to bypass the problem by skipping
> the server's no-root-privileges check when the postmaster is given the
> -C switch. (This shouldn't pose a security hazard, since reading the
> config files is something a root-privileged caller could do anyway.)
> I don't immediately see a non-ugly way to do that in the current server
> code structure, but maybe somebody else will have an idea.
>
I had the same idea, and couldn't see a simple way to do it either. The
trouble is that the check_root() call comes too early for us to do it
cleanly. But I'll have another look.
cheers
andrew