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

Holger Hoffstaette wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:17:30 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
>> Holger Hoffstaette wrote:
>>> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:10:26 +0900, ITAGAKI Takahiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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".
>>> %USERNAME%/%APPDATA%
>>>
>>> These variables exist for good reasons..
>> Yes. For user apps. They pretty much suck for services.
>
> Wah? Please explain. I was under the impression that a service running
> under some account has access to its profile and all the assorted things
> that come with it. Is this not the case?

It does - in theory. It doesn't always work.

For example, consider what happens when your files are on a roaming
profile. And yes, profiles can more or less randomly move between being
roaming and local-copy in my experience... And you really don't want
that for your database files.

//Magnus