Re: display and expression of the home directory in Win32 - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Dave Page
Subject Re: display and expression of the home directory in Win32
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Msg-id E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E4E7EDF6@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk
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In response to display and expression of the home directory in Win32  ("Hiroshi Saito" <saito@inetrt.skcapi.co.jp>)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-patches-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-patches-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of
> Peter Eisentraut
> Sent: 06 January 2006 11:07
> To: pgsql-patches@postgresql.org
> Cc: Hiroshi Saito
> Subject: Re: [PATCHES] display and expression of the home
> directory in Win32
>
> Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2006 04:03 schrieb Hiroshi Saito:
> [pg_config]
> > HOMEDIR = "C:/Documents and Settings/saito/Application
> Data/postgresql"
>
> Where does this come from and what would it be good for?

It's not always obvious on Windows where this directory is because apps
generally write their files there themselves, thus the user doesn't
necessarily even know it exists. Pgpass.conf (which we store there) is a
bit of odd case because it may be used by various front-end applications
or drivers and may need manual editting.

That's not to say I necessarily think it should be added to pg_config -
I could be persuaded either way.

Regards, Dave.

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