Re: Running PostGre on DVD

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).
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