Re: small windows psqlrc re-wording - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: small windows psqlrc re-wording
Date
Msg-id 3402894.1659018484@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: small windows psqlrc re-wording  (Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>)
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Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 10:04:12AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> If all supported versions do have home directories now, should we
>> instead think about aligning the Windows behavior with everywhere
>> else?

> As far as I know the expected usage on Windows is still different.  Even with
> home directories application are still expected to put stuff in %APPDATA% (1),
> in a dedicated directory.  That's especially important since there is still no
> concept of "hidden" files and the explorer still hides the extensions by
> default.

Ah.  Yeah, if there's no convention about hiding files based on a
leading "." then we definitely don't want to do that.

            regards, tom lane



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