desoi@xxxxxxxxxx (John DeSoi) writes: > On Jan 25, 2005, at 8:44 AM, Christopher Browne wrote: >> You can do that with PostgreSQL by configuring pg_hba.conf to only >> accept connections from localhost. >> >> And there is no problem with the notion of creating a database in a >> local directory. >> >> None of this requires any change. > > But on Windows 8.0 you can't run the postmaster with an > administrative account, correct? I really wish this was configurable > in the PostgreSQL settings (of course, defaulting to the way it is > now). I haven't the foggiest idea what you can do on Windows 8.0; I thought they called it Windows XP or Windows 2000. I'm making the Unix-flavoured assumptions that it's cheap and easy to create an extra directory and to spawn an extra process for a postmaster in a user's own process space. That may vary somewhat for the more VMS-like model of Windows NT... -- "cbbrowne","@","ca.afilias.info" <http://dev6.int.libertyrms.com/> Christopher Browne (416) 673-4124 (land) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
