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From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Automatic Backups
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In response to Automatic Backups  ("David A. Leedom" <daleedom@hightowergroup.com>)
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>I am writing a program to backup Postgres 8.0 installed on windows via
>Visual Basic.
>
>Is there an easy way to find out where a the PostgreSQL bin files are
>located so I can get the pg_dump and pg_restore utilities?

It's stored in the registry under
HKLM\Software\PostgreSQL\Installations\<version id>\Bin Directory

For 8.0.x, version id is {5AA3FA26-72A2-4D06-9BFE-98E650A37B6D}.

//Magnus

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