Re: registry vs. environment (was re:binary installer)

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >What additional things to we need to deal with if we go the
> >direction of
> >having the environment variables set from the registry and read-only in
> >the process?
>
> I still beleive this way of doing things will be the best. If you want
> it in the system environment, you can use that. If you put it in the
> registry (service specific, for example), that will override those
> settings and be used instead.

I was thinking we can allow the environment to override the registry to
allow multiple postmasters.

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