On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:39:37AM -0500, Rod Taylor wrote: > > 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.
Well, I think the normal windows installer goes and installs PostgreSQL as a service, which eliminates all these problems; but that doesn't help for the case of trying to run a demo. BTW, my point was that the reason many windows users run with admin rights is because windows doesn't provide a viable alternative (unlike OS X). -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
