Re: Installing PostgreSQL on Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 64bit - first results

From: ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: "pginstaller-devel(at)pgfoundry(dot)org" <pginstaller-devel(at)pgfoundry(dot)org>, Harald Armin Massa <haraldarminmassa(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: General Postgres Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Installing PostgreSQL on Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 64bit - first results
Date: 2009-01-27 07:10:26
Message-ID: 20090127155145.8F97.52131E4D@oss.ntt.co.jp
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Harald Armin Massa <haraldarminmassa(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> 4.) it seems to be no longer "cool" to have your data below Program
> Files / Program Files (x86)
> The default as of know is \ProgramData\<application>

I think all of those directories are only for executable files
and not good to store any data. Is it safe to create database cluster
under "C:\Documents and Settings\postgres" or "C:\Users\postgres" ?
UAC often bytes us when we just try to modify the configuration file.

I'm not sure which directory should we create $PGDATA -- "My Documents",
"Application Data", "Local Settings" or direct child of %USERPROFILE%,
but anyway some of them would be better than "Program Files".

Regards,
---
ITAGAKI Takahiro
NTT Open Source Software Center

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