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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 13:16:14 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
Subject: Re: Postgres as a service & the SYSTEM account - is it possible ?
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Pavel,

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 06:32:13PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> It seems no, but since its not explicitly written in the README
> I thought I'd give it a try.

I never added this verbiage to my README, because I tried to stick with
Cygwin specific issues and information.  Note that the PostgreSQL
documentation clearly states that one cannot run postmaster under root.
I guess that I should patch PostgreSQL to understand that the root UID
is 18 under Cygwin...

> What I get in the eventlog is a complaint about an unsuccessful call
> to execv (Operation not permitted).

If you really want to debug this, then switch user to system via "ssh
system AT localhost" and run postmaster from the command line or under gdb.
However, this exercise may be short lived if I really carry out my above
threat. :,)

Jason

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