Re: Version control for DLLs installed into WINNT/system32 - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Version control for DLLs installed into WINNT/system32
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Msg-id 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE476242@algol.sollentuna.se
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In response to Version control for DLLs installed into WINNT/system32  (Markus Öllinger <markus_oellinger@hotmail.com>)
List pgsql-bugs
> I've found that if you have installed a previous beta release=20
> (e.g. beta4) and deinstall it, then the DLLs in system32 are=20
> not removed (e.g. libpq.dll).

That is not good, and needs to be fixed. Please log a bug with the pginstal=
ler project on pgfoundry.org.

> Furthermore, if you then install beta5, it does=20
> not complain but doesn't overwrite the old versions either.

That is normal. We don't bump file versions during beta. Once a new product=
ion release is installed it will have a higher version number on libpq.dll,=
 and the file will automatically be replaced.


> As a consequence, the old DLLs are used by beta5 and the DB=20
> does not work.
> The same applies to libeay32.dll.

The uninstall part. This file has not changed during beta, though, so it sh=
ouldn't be a problem. A problem with this file is that we pull it in from u=
pstream, and it doesn't have a versioninfo tag...

//Magnus

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