Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add documentation for Windows on how to set an environment - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add documentation for Windows on how to set an environment
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Msg-id 45C8F560.5070802@hagander.net
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In response to Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add documentation for Windows on how to set an environment  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add documentation for Windows on how to set an environment  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>>> I think environment variables are used rarely enough on Win32 that we
>>>> should supply a hint.
>>> I think every Windows administrator who is not totally clueless knows 
>>> how to set the environment. Maybe home users don't use it much, but 
>>> admins certainly need to know about it.
>> Another argument against it is that the libpq documentation is an
>> entirely random place to discuss it, as libpq is hardly the only part of
>> Postgres that responds to environment variables.
>>
>> I liked the idea of mentioning it in the Windows FAQ, instead.
> 
> OK, sure.  Magnus.
> 

I assume you mean "add it to the win32 FAQ", so I did. Will be on next
site build.

//Magnus


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