> > In the win32 user's sight, the current implementation is very
> > dogmatic. While there *has* to be some dogmatism about
> security, IMHO
> > in the case of account to run pgsql on this is up to the
> > administrator, not us. We should recommend using a separate user,
> > support it in the installer by default as comfortable as
> possible, but
> > enforcing it is regarded as non-native and thus suspicious in the
> > win32 world.
> >
> > Running as admin is so common for Windows, you'd never see
> complaints
> > about that aspect. Even programs *requiring* admin rights
> are widely
> > accepted (with some minor grumbling).
> >
> > It's another universe...
> >
>
> I originally left the 'running as root/administrator' check
> out of initdb for this reason.
Initdb opens a pipe to postgres.exe, no?. Which makes that kind of a
non-op, since it will just fail at a later time...
//Magnus