Hello,I need to initialize the db as the root and start the database server. In order to accomplish this, I modified the initdb.c source file of pgsql package and tried to compile it. Eventhough the build was successful, I couldn't see the root user able to execute initdb executable generated by the build. I wanted to know if there is any other procedure for building the postgresql procedure?
Thanks
Shreesha.
P.S
Below is the changes done in initdb.c (shown in bold letters below)
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static char *
get_id(void)
{
#ifndef WIN32
struct passwd *pw;
// if (geteuid() == 0) /* 0 is root's uid */
/* {
fprintf(stderr,
_("%s: cannot be run as root\n"
"Please log in (using, e.g., \"su\") as the "
"(unprivileged) user that will\n"
"own the server process.\n"),
progname);
exit(1);
}
*/
...
}