On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Xiang Gan <XiangGan@santaitech.com> writes: > OK. So a stupid question, whether there is any possibility to run Postgresql as root? (I know this is forbidden generally. But what I find out is that in Linux FriendlyArm environment, root could create socket while non-root user does not have such privilege)
Typically, applications open the port as root and then change to low privilege for the actual service.