> Well, a bigger issue is that windows makes things a lot more difficult > to do if you don't have admin on your account. Yes, there is runas, but > windows doesn't exactly foster people working from the command line. And > IIRC runas isn't nearly as nice to use as sudo.
Couldn't the installer create a handy dandy icon on the desktop with the correct runas command to start/stop it for a given user or even have a graphical pg_ctl type interface with Start, Stop and Restart buttons that does the right thing behind the scenes? On unix I get a startup script that hides the su and other logic and safeties behind the scenes. -- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match