Re: setuid(geteuid());?

> I said:
> > On machines that have setreuid(), or even better setresuid(), we could
> > force the ruid (and suid for good measure) to match euid.  Otherwise we
> > probably should refuse to start unless getuid matches geteuid.
> 
> But on third thought, it's not worth the trouble of adding two more
> configure tests to support a configuration that I doubt anyone uses
> anyway (ie, setuid postgres executable).  Let's just remove the setuid()
> and add a check for getuid() == geteuid() in main.c.
> 
> Peter, unless you've already started in on this, I can take care of it
> --- I see a couple of other nits I want to fix in those two files, too.

Good. That function call clearly needs a comment added.

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