Amit kapila <amit.kap...@huawei.com> writes: > 1. does this follow the behavior that admin users will not be allowed to > invoke postgres child process?
That's an interesting question. I'm not sure if we'd want to disable the no-root check on the Unix side, but it might make sense to. But this has no bearing on what libpq does, does it? > 2. to find standalone_backend incase user didn't input, do we need mechanism > similar to getInstallationPaths()? No. There is no reason at all for libpq to think it is part of a postgres-supplied program, so it can't use any relative-path tricks, even if it had the program's argv[0] which it does not. Either the compiled-in path works, or the user has to give one. (But having said that, if Windows provides a way for a DLL to find out its own filesystem location, maybe relative path from there would work.) regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers