Re: help in starting up / shutting down postgres as another

You can use su(1) from a script and setuid(2) from a C program to become
who ever
but not 'root' to launch postgres.

PG needs a database administrator. Most people use postgres. But you can
use anything
you want.

Dorward Villaruz wrote:

>is it possible to start postgres from another user, we only know the
>postgres account password and our shell account to use.
>we have an application that needs to restart postgres if it crashes. ü
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