| From: | Lamar Owen <lowen(at)pari(dot)edu> |
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| To: | "Chad N(dot) Tindel" <chad(at)tindel(dot)net> |
| Cc: | "Chad N(dot) Tindel" <chad(at)tindel(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Mysql -> Postgresql pitfalls |
| Date: | 2003-08-04 21:08:41 |
| Message-ID: | 200308041708.41374.lowen@pari.edu |
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On Monday 04 August 2003 13:54, Chad N. Tindel wrote:
> True. There are good reasons to not run apache as root. There are also
> perfectly valid reasons to run it as root, for such users who want to make
> an informed decision.
Name one.
> My posts to the list are not going through. I am NOT advocating running
> postmaster as root. I never was.
No, you're advocating giving that option. We have chosen to not be the
instrument of an admin shooting themselves in the foot.
> I don't think there is a non-condescending way to tell an administrator
> that you think you know what is better for their operating environment than
> they do.
Yes, there are. MySQL does it all the time. "You don't need
{transactions|foreign keys|subqueries|feature of the day they don't have}."
People don't seem to mind that. We have other reasons, IIRC.
--
Lamar Owen
Director of Information Technology
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
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