Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> I was asked on IRC just why we can't have user=postgres and
> group=postgres in the postgresql.conf, and simply when we are run as
> root, switch to that user and group.
I should think that running as root up until sometime after we have read
postgresql.conf would open up more security issues. It's certainly not
a way to close this one...
regards, tom lane