Re: replacing Access/ Approach etc

"Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On 9/8/07, Zenaan Harkness <zen(at)freedbms(dot)net> wrote:
>> In the meantimem, is there any option to allow pg to run in a privileged
>> account on windows?

> Your friend has the following choices in the matter. He can stop
> running as an administrator and then run postgresql from his account,
> or he can install postgresql as a service, which really isn't a huge
> inconvience / use of resources or he can hack the windows code to let
> pgsql run in an unsupported and unsafe manner.

I thought there was code in there since 8.2 to drop the admin privileges
at startup ... doesn't that solve the problem the way he wants?

regards, tom lane