Re: buildfarm vs code

On 06/06/2018 09:16 AM, Amit Kapila wrote:
>
>     > The second change the recipe makes is to disable the tablespace
>     tests. On
>     > Windows, when running as the Administrator, the application gives up
>     > privilege to such an extent that the tablespace tests fail.
>
>     Ohh.  I was confused about why Windows was giving us fewer privileges
>     when we had a more privileged account, but in fact *we* did that.
>     Where does the privilege-giving-up happen?
>
>
> It happens during startup, see CreateRestrictedProcess in 
> src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c.
>
>


Yeah, what seems quite odd, though, is that when run as an unprivileged 
use the tablespace test runs just fine, but when run as a privileged 
user it fails. If that's fixable we should fix it :-)

cheers

andrew

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