Re: A patch to pg_regress for Windows port

cool...

On 1/6/07, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>
> Gurjeet Singh wrote:
> > On Windows, if logged in as an Administrator, 'make check' fails with
> > our standard error, saying:
> >
> > <quote>
> > Execution of PostgreSQL by a user with administrative permissions is not
> > permitted.
> > The server must be started under an unprivileged user ID to prevent
> > possible system security compromises. See the documentation for
> > more information on how to properly start the server.
> > </quote>
> >
> > But, for some time now, a Windows' Administrator *can* run a postgres
> > without having to create a normal user; he just has to use pg_ctl to do
> > so. Thanks to code written by Magnus, pg_ctl gives up it's
> > administrative privilges before starting the postmaster, and hence the
> > postmaster runs without critical privileges.
> >
> > So I thought that 'make check' could also make use of that
> > functionality, and hence this patch.
>
> Per previous discussion with Tom (in the archives, but I can't get there
> right now), this is the wrong way to do it. We lose the ability to kill
> the postmaster if it fails.
>
> I have a proper working solution in my tree that I will submit soon
> along with the changes required to make pg_regress work in a non-msys
> environment using MSVC.
>
> //Magnus
>
>

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