Re: Relocatable locale - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Relocatable locale
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Msg-id 200405271241.i4RCfRG26015@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Relocatable locale  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2004 13:05 schrieb Magnus Hagander:
> > I don't beleive this is a windows-specific issue. It's a general issue
> > for all relocateable installs.
>
> Except that no one except Windows uses relocatable installs.

I don't think that is completely true.  Packagers have been requesting
relocatable installs for a while, I think.

> > As for how to do it - on Windows you *can* get the path of the DLL that
> > is executing your code, using GetModuleFileName(). Hardly
> > cross-platform, but can be done.
>
> That sounds pretty reasonable to me.

True, and we already have our own find_my_exec() which works for Unix too.

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