I would like to start a discussion about having an extra option in PG which makes possible to bypass (or not check) whether the current user has root/administrative privileges especially (or only) for Windows.
The following is the situation: It would be great to be able to distribute PG as standalone database for an standalone application within Windows. Because of the security check within PG an extra Windows user must be created(postgres user). This is not always possible/wanted because of the Windows (XP) user profile settings on some operational domains. Network admins tend to lock most of the things for normal users on Windows/XP in most companies which disallows creating an extra user for PG and installing it as service on Windows clients Next to above most of the Windows users at home are local admins which is not accepted by PG (when starting up). In my case I need to distribute PG within the setup of a custom standalone application. This is done very easily with MS Access, MSDE, Firebird even with MySQL. I was thinking of an extra startup option or perhaps a compile time option in ./configure ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster