Re: 8.0 Beta 1 // Environment Vars // .pgpass - Mailing list pgsql-hackers-win32

On Thursday 12 August 2004 06:25, Tom Lane wrote:
> "efesar (the kay)" <efesar@unm.edu> writes:
> > The 8.0 version does not acknowledge env vars like PGPASSWORD and seems
> > to ignore the contents of the .pgpass file.
>
> Hmmm.   Those are probably the same problem, since finding .pgpass
> depends on expanding the $HOME env var.  But I have no idea why
> env vars aren't working for you ...
>
>             regards, tom lane
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Yep. AFAIK, $HOME doesn't always exist in WIN32, but $HOMEDRIVE and $HOMEPATH
(or %HOMEPATH% and %HOMEDRIVE% ;-) do. Perhaps PG needs to do some munging to
build the home path from those two?

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    Joerg
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