Re: Patch for EDB binary path not set by default. - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers

Ashesh - can you review/commit this please? I'm swamped at the moment. Thanks.

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Dinesh Kumar
<dinesh.kumar@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> Thanks for your valuable inputs.
>
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Dinesh Kumar
>> <dinesh.kumar@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Dave/Team,
>>>
>>> When we install a 32-bit pgAdmin-III in a windows 64-bit machine, which
>>> is already having the 64-bit EnterpriseDB database installed, then EDB
>>> binary path not set to by default.
>>>
>>> Further to my observation, below is the mechanism how the pgAdmin looks
>>> for the PPAS binary path.
>>>
>>> A) Read the settings.ini for the entry "EnterpriseDBPath" and get the
>>> value.
>>>
>>> B) Read the "EnterpriseDBPath" as a key in the registries. If the key is
>>> not found, then create one key and assign the value of settings.ini file.
>>>
>>> C) If the registry is found, and still the value of "EnterpriseDBPath" is
>>> null, then we are checking the %PATH% which will be having the "pg_dump.exe"
>>> file and it's a type of "EnterpriseDB".
>>>
>>> D) If we don't find any "pg_dump.exe" edb version, then we go for the
>>> default locations to search for the edb version.
>>>
>>> I have verified the above A, B and C cases, and those are working fine in
>>> a 64-bit machine. But the case D is not working as expected in a 64-bit
>>> machine. Hence, would like to submit a patch for this case.
>>>
>>> Kindly let me know your inputs on this patch.
>>
>>
>> I don't think you can do it that way - what if the directory name doesn't
>> end in "(x86)"? You can configure Windows to use any arbitrary directory for
>> the Program Files folders. I suspect you'll need to use a preprocessor macro
>> to handle the 32 vs. 64 bit cases accordingly.
>
> Sorry for the delay on this issue.
>
> I have done some google around the same problem, and found the solution to
> use "programw6432" environment variable , if a 32 bit application runs in a
> 64 bit machine. But, this option only works on windows 7 and windows 2008 R2
> onwards. And after spending some time, i have found one suitable solution
> for this case, which we need to read the key "ProgramFilesDir" from the
> registry "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion",
> and i have implemented this mechanism using pgRegKey.
>
> Here i have used, "wxIsPlatform64Bit()" as an alternative to preprocessor
> macros.
>
> Kindly let me know your inputs on this patch.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Dinesh
>>
>>
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>
>



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