> I have installed Postures on a Windows server and it starts as a > service and all is OK. > > I have 2 questions: > > 1. I need to be able to wrap PostgreSQL as part of my application > and, therefore, start it as part of my app. start-up. I know that > pg_ctl start is the command, but as your documentation clearly > states, PostgreSQL can only be started by a non-privileged user. > Here lies my problem. > Most software needs a privileged user to start it. So how can I > start PostgreSQL as a different user from the one which needs to be > logged in to start the other software? This will be fixed in 8.2 (it's fixed in the development snapshots). You can find backported versions of initdb and pg_ctl on http://people.planetpostgresql.org/mha/index.php?/archives/93-Backported -run-as-admin-tools.html. I would not recommend these for a big production deployment, because they are *not* official PostgreSQL binaries (the database backend still is, though, so it *should* be safe. But they have not been as well tested as postgresql-proper). But for a pilot install that will go to 8.2, definitely worth using. > 2. How do I give my users a totally new database. Is backup/restore > the only mechanism? > Can I copy (parts of) the data directory, from one installation of > PostgreSQL to another? Backup/restore, or you can create a manual sql script that you pass to psql that generates all your objects. //Magnus
