Re: Re: BUG #5065: pg_ctl start fails as administrator, with "could not locate matching postgres executable"

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 15:07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> writes:
>> This function call is adding the new access control entry to the DACL,
>> and in Jesse's modified version it's specifying that the ACE should be
>> inheritable.
>
> Hah, so now we have a theory.
>
>> The other refactoring is still important however - without it, I still
>> see the error. I would guess that you cannot add an inheritable ACE
>> once the process has been created, but I cannot say for certain.
>
> That would make sense if the state gets copied to the process at time
> of creation.  Okay, I'm satisfied that this is a believable patch...

From a quick look, it looks fine to me. I don't have time to do a
complete check right now, but I'll do that as soon as I can and then
commit it - unless people feel it's more urgent than maybe a week
worst case, in which case someone else has to pick it up :-)

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