Re: pg_id and pg_encoding

"Andreas Pflug" <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> >>We'll also need to decide the Windows equivalent of the 'don't run as 
> >>root' rule - or even if we want to enforce it at all, given that it 
> >>appears to be very common practice on Windows to run all services as a 
> >>user with Administrator privileges.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I assume we will relax that for Win32.  I don't think non-Administrators
> >have the same isolation on Win32 as non-root users have on Unix.
> >  
> >
> While it's best practice for *ix to work as non-root, many windows users 
> will be administrator-equivalent. The "Local System account" commonly 
> used to run services is even more privileged than the local admin. So 
> the restriction to non-admins won't make too much sense.

Work as non-root is a good practice for windows user too, I'll not bet
for the future that on windows all users will be "super user"; 
you can choose to start a service like a non super user too, I'd like to 
mantain the same policy on windows too.


Regards
Gaetano Mendola