Re: pg_id and pg_encoding

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> Is there any reason to keep separate pg_id and pg_encoding programs, or
> should they be merged into a C version of initdb? AFAICS initdb is the
> only thing that uses them.

Yes, I assume they would go away with a C version.

> We'll also need to decide the Windows equivalent of the 'don't run as
> root' rule - or even if we want to enforce it at all, given that it
> appears to be very common practice on Windows to run all services as a
> user with Administrator privileges.

I assume we will relax that for Win32. I don't think non-Administrators
have the same isolation on Win32 as non-root users have on Unix.

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