Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] What's left? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Felstead
Subject Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] What's left?
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Msg-id DB52470712E0D611889E0002A52CE3080537B5D5@ariel.colesmyer.com.au
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Hi all,

Might I just suggest good old "C:\PostgreSQL" ?

MS SQL server defaults to C:\MSSQL, so I don't think that a directory in the
root path is unreasonable.  Further, it makes it look more important if it
installs in the root directory :)

All the best,

-David Felstead

Claudio Natoli wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > Claudio Natoli wrote:
> >
> > > * installation directory issues (/usr/local/pgsql/bin won't work too
> > > well outside of the MingW environment :-)
> >
> >
> > Clearly we will need an installer for a binary distribution.
>
> Yes. To be more precise, my point was that doing so will require some
> changes to the code (ie. configure/compile time constants like PKGLIBDIR
> just won't do us any good).
>
>
> > But for now I suggest that the default prefix on Windows is
> > C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL
>
> For right now, I'd suggest a directory that doesn't have whitespace and
> localization issues :-P
>
> Cheers,
> Claudio

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