Re: small windows psqlrc re-wording

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Treat <rob(at)xzilla(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: small windows psqlrc re-wording
Date: 2022-07-28 14:28:04
Message-ID: 3402894.1659018484@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 10:04:12AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> If all supported versions do have home directories now, should we
>> instead think about aligning the Windows behavior with everywhere
>> else?

> As far as I know the expected usage on Windows is still different. Even with
> home directories application are still expected to put stuff in %APPDATA% (1),
> in a dedicated directory. That's especially important since there is still no
> concept of "hidden" files and the explorer still hides the extensions by
> default.

Ah. Yeah, if there's no convention about hiding files based on a
leading "." then we definitely don't want to do that.

regards, tom lane

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