From: Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
To: Chad N. Tindel <chad@tindel.net>
Cc: Chad N. Tindel <chad@tindel.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Mysql -> Postgresql pitfalls
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 17:08:41 -0400
Message-ID: <200308041708.41374.lowen@pari.edu> (raw)
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On Monday 04 August 2003 13:54, Chad N. Tindel wrote:
> True. There are good reasons to not run apache as root. There are also
> perfectly valid reasons to run it as root, for such users who want to make
> an informed decision.
Name one.
> My posts to the list are not going through. I am NOT advocating running
> postmaster as root. I never was.
No, you're advocating giving that option. We have chosen to not be the
instrument of an admin shooting themselves in the foot.
> I don't think there is a non-condescending way to tell an administrator
> that you think you know what is better for their operating environment than
> they do.
Yes, there are. MySQL does it all the time. "You don't need
{transactions|foreign keys|subqueries|feature of the day they don't have}."
People don't seem to mind that. We have other reasons, IIRC.
--
Lamar Owen
Director of Information Technology
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
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