On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Xiang Gan <XiangGan(at)santaitech(dot)com> writes:
> > OK. So a stupid question, whether there is any possibility to run
> Postgresql as root? (I know this is forbidden generally. But what I find
> out is that in Linux FriendlyArm environment, root could create socket
> while non-root user does not have such privilege)
>
Typically, applications open the port as root and then change to low
privilege for the actual service.
See also this thread:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/413807/is-there-a-way-for-non-root-processes-to-bind-to-privileged-ports-1024-on-l