-Original Message-
From: Neil Conway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 December 2004 03:59
To: Dave Page
Cc: pgsql-patches
Subject: RE: [PATCHES] pg_resetxlog as root
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 23:59 +, Dave Page wrote:
Sounds reasonable to me.
Attached is a patch
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 11:30 +, Dave Page wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Neil Conway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 December 2004 03:59
To: Dave Page
Cc: pgsql-patches
Subject: RE: [PATCHES] pg_resetxlog as root
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 23:59 +, Dave Page
-Original Message-
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Conway
Sent: 12 December 2004 22:57
To: pgsql-patches
Subject: [PATCHES] pg_resetxlog as root
I suppose a similar fix is needed for Win32? If so,
pgwin32_is_admin() would be the natural
We should prevent pg_resetxlog from being run as root: it writes new
files to $PGDATA, so running the tool as root will result in those files
being owned by root, which makes the data directory unusable.
Attached is a trivial patch that makes this change for Unix. I suppose a
similar fix is
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 23:59 +, Dave Page wrote:
Sounds reasonable to me.
Attached is a patch that implements this.
src/port/backend/win32/security.c is moved to src/port/win32_security.c,
and conditionally added to LIBOBJS. Note that I don't have much
experience with the build system, and
