Tom Lane wrote:
> "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Does Windows even have a concept of home directory? What would be a
> >> reasonable equivalent to ~/.postgresql/ ?
>
> > The versions of windows that the port supports (NT4, 2000, 2003, XP) do
> > have home directories.
>
> OK ... are you supposed to find it out by looking at the environment
> vars, or is there another API defined?
>
> I am planning to consolidate the platform dependency into a function
> defined like
>
> static bool pqGetHomeDirectory(char *buf, int bufsize)
> {
> -- Obtain pathname of user's home directory, store in
> -- buf[] (of size bufsize)
> -- Return TRUE if succeeded, FALSE if not
> }
>
I had this on my personal TODO list:
centralize missing struct passwd
I didn't do it because I only relized it during beta when Peter
mentioned it. Well, seems like it is done now. :-)
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