Re: 8.3 .4 + Vista + MingW + initdb = ACCESS_DENIED

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>
>
> Dave Page wrote:
>>>
>>> Well - building your own Postgres 8.3 on Windows using MingW appears
>>> broken.
>>> Not sure how many people fall into that category, but its seems like a
>>> fairly major issue.
>>>
>>
>> Very few people build their own Postgres on Windows, because it's not
>> exactly straightforward to do because of all the dependencies.
>>
>>
>
> IMNSHO, it is not acceptable to leave CVS for any significant period in a
> state where someone can't run "make check" by hand, and you certainly can't
> assume that no-one will want to do so.

It's not the case that no one can run 'make check' - it's very much
dependent on the configuration of the user account. Much as it pains
me to say it, running as Administrator or a member of the
Administrators group should normally work as you will inherit the
required privileges.

> I can confirm that commenting out '+ 18' from the last loop of the offending
> patch allows me to run and test on XP-Pro.
>
> What do we actually need to create this object in the global namespace?

The user running initdb (or the postmaster) needs
SeCreateGlobalPrivilege - which is something we cannot really start
telling people they must have. My view is that we revert the change
(well, replace it with something that looks less like a broken attempt
to use the global namespace) and leave it at that. iirc, the use of
the global namespace is there to ensure things work as they should
under a non-console terminal services session - which is pretty rare
and can usually be avoided.

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Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com