[postgis-devel] Documentation on make check

[Greg Troxel]

Bruce Rindahl <bruce.rindahl at gmail.com> writes:

> Doing some full compilation and checking on raspberry pi.  While running
> make check, realized this has to be run as a postgresql superuser.  Suggest
> adding to documentation it be run as:
> PGUSER=foo make check
> where foo is a superuser.

Agreed on explaining that the user running make check needs to be able
to do postgresql operations.   I guess it's an interesting question on
whether that user needs to be a pgsql superuser, as that sort of
indicates that postgis needs privs that perhaps it shouldn't.

I don't follow how

PGUSER=foo make check

would work, unless you are assuming that you are running as root.  A
normal user should not be able to obtain another user's permissions just
by asking.

I typically do postgis packaging/testing on a machine that does not have
a production database, and run builds/tests as a non-root user that is a
pgsql su.