Re: display and expression of the home directory in Win32

From: "Magnus Hagander"

>> HOMEDIR = "C:/Documents and Settings/saito/Application
>> Data/postgresql"
>> VERSION = PostgreSQL 8.1.1
>
> HOMEDIR is a very bad name for this variable, since it's *not* the home
> directory. It could easily be confused. If we put it in, I definitly
> think it should be called something else.. (USERCONFDIR based on that we

Um, About a name, I think that it is right.

> have SYSCONFDIR, perhaps?). Also, there is no reason not to include it
> on Unix as well - it would actrually be much better to do that, in case
> someone wants to write a script that relies on it.

It will be good to be clearly shown in all environments.

>> dir "C:/Documents and Settings/saito/Application Data/postgresql"
>
> This would then be:
> dir "%APPDATA%\postgresql"
>
> which is actually much easier to use than getting it from pg_config,
> since you can use the environment variable in any command you want.

Probably, there is a user who notices after the directory is shown.

Regards,
Hiroshi Saito