On Tuesday 15 November 2005 03:37 pm, Tom Lane wrote: > "Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> To be honest, the fact that Postgres forces you to run as a > >> non-admin user has given me nothing but headaches. (yes, I > >> know, the problem is defaulting everyone to admin rights is > >> the problem. But that's where I am). I have been kicking > >> around the idea of posting a change to allow you to run as > >> admin, > > > > This has been proposed before, and always rejected. While you're always > > welcome to provide a patch, I'm very doubtful it would be accepted into > > the main product. > > The example given in this thread certainly isn't going to change > anybody's mind. "Hi, I propose reducing everybody's security because > my local admins insist on an utterly brain-dead security policy."
Tom, nobody wants to reduce everybody's security, and nobody is proposing changes leading to such. I just believe more than me agree that having this as an option on Windows wouldn't hurt anybody, but would rather make life simpler for some Windows people. Anyway, I don't use Windows on a regular basis, so it's not that important to me... -- Andreas Joseph Krogh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Senior Software Developer / Manager gpg public_key: http://dev.officenet.no/~andreak/public_key.asc ------------------------+---------------------------------------------+ OfficeNet AS | The most difficult thing in the world is to | Hoffsveien 17 | know how to do a thing and to watch | PO. Box 425 Skøyen | somebody else doing it wrong, without | 0213 Oslo | comment. | NORWAY | | Phone : +47 22 13 01 00 | | Direct: +47 22 13 10 03 | | Mobile: +47 909 56 963 | | ------------------------+---------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------(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
