Re: 8.3 .4 + Vista + MingW + initdb = ACCESS_DENIED

From: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Charlie Savage" <cfis(at)savagexi(dot)com>, "Magnus Hagander" <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 8.3 .4 + Vista + MingW + initdb = ACCESS_DENIED
Date: 2008-10-14 14:31:53
Message-ID: 603c8f070810140731s6b359aaal68ad21e3039656a3@mail.gmail.com
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> The user running initdb (or the postmaster) needs
> SeCreateGlobalPrivilege - which is something we cannot really start
> telling people they must have. My view is that we revert the change
> (well, replace it with something that looks less like a broken attempt
> to use the global namespace) and leave it at that. iirc, the use of
> the global namespace is there to ensure things work as they should
> under a non-console terminal services session - which is pretty rare
> and can usually be avoided.

I'm not so sure that non-console terminal service sessions should be
categorized as "pretty rare".

I use them routinely.

...Robert

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