Re: Postgres won't start after setting ssl=on

While I do appreciate the vote of confidence, rest assured you will
never see a post from me that starts with "So I've been hacking the pg
code and..."

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Darren Duncan <darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)net> wrote:
>> The owner of these new files needs to be the same as that of your Pg data
>> dir in general or postgresql.conf specifically, and that owner be the same
>> as the process that runs the Pg server.  Are you running Pg as root?  (In
>> any event, you should have another user; running programs or servers as root
>> when they don't need root powers is generally a bad idea.) -- Darren Duncan
>
> Actually, unless you've hacked the pg code, it won't start as root.
>