[pgpool-general: 8549] What user does PgPool run as?

[Ron]

(I'm still configuring PgPool 4.3, so haven't started it yet.)

/usr/lib/systemd/system/pgpool.service say that PgPool runs as use 
"postgres", but the docs 
(https://www.pgpool.net/docs/43/en/html/example-cluster.html) say "default 
root user", and that root's public key must be copied to user postgres on 
all the nodes.

This old message 
(https://www.pgpool.net/pipermail/pgpool-general/2018-July/006227.html) says 
reasonably that root is needed to control the VIP.  You've got to jump 
through some hoops to run PgPool as non-root.

Can you clarify?

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