On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Brook Milligan wrote:
> No, "normal" users shouldn't be allowed to do so, obviously. But, are
> there real systems in which a database maintainer (i.e., user
> postgres) cannot cooperate with the system admin (i.e., user root) to
> accomplish this? In practice, is it really envisioned that postgres
> should be _so_ distinct from the system? For example, don't most
> people run the postmaster from the system startup scripts, and isn't
> that the same thing? How did those commands get inserted into the
> startup scripts if not by root?
I do not feel that it is appropriate for a non-root program (which
PostgreSQL is) to require a systems administrator to make permissions
related changed to a directory for it to run, period.