Re: stderr & win32 admin check

"Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
>> So? I don't follow why "run it as a service" isn't a
>> sufficient answer, and indeed the preferred way to do it.

> It is the preferred method, however two reasons not to spring to mind:
> first, I bet you and most others on this list might not want to do that
> if forced to develop on a Windows box, and second, you can only run one
> instance as a service on a single machine.

If forced to develop on Windows, I certainly wouldn't hold still for
developing on NT4. This argument would have more force if it were
referring to a remotely current release, but that one is four Windows
revs back for pete's sake. It's not going to have every feature of
newer releases. This is one.

regards, tom lane