Re: Running PostGre on DVD

On Tuesday 15 November 2005 02:16 pm, Pollard, Mike wrote:
> > I explain myself about running PostGre as admin.
> >
> > In fact I don't want specifically run PostGre as admin. The problem
>
> is, on
>
> > the computers the application including PostGre will run, I'm not sure
> > that
> > the user won't have any admin or power user rights. Furthermore, I've
> > noticed that on certain domains, any user created is automatically
>
> added
>
> > to
> > a default group having power user rights (that is actually happening
>
> to
>
> > me).
>
> To be honest, the fact that Postgres forces you to run as a non-admin
> user has given me nothing but headaches.  (yes, I know, the problem is
> defaulting everyone to admin rights is the problem.  But that's where I
> am).  I have been kicking around the idea of posting a change to allow
> you to run as admin, but in the meanwhile if you can build Postgres on
> your machine, the fix is very easy.  Go into src/backend/main/main.c and
> find the line
>
>         if (pgwin32_is_admin())
>
> and change it to
>
>         if (false && pgwin32_is_admin())

Thanks, I'll see if I can build PG on Windows now.

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