From: | "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> |
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To: | "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, <zirmen(at)shaw(dot)ca> |
Cc: | <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: psql \i handling ~ in specified file name |
Date: | 2003-12-21 15:07:39 |
Message-ID: | 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE2A699C@algol.sollentuna.se |
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>Zach Irmen said:
>> "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>>> What happens if getenv("HOME") returns NULL?
>>
>> Yeah, the strdup fails. I'll take it out to fix that.
>>
>>> You also need to think about Windows
>>
>> Can I just ifndef WIN32 and not think about it? I'm not sure how that
>> would work either.
>>
>
>If we are going to have a Windows port I don't think we should
>treat it as
>a poor cousin.
>
>This information is easily discoverable on MSDN in 5 minutes.
>The answer
>is that you need to call NetUserGetInfo at level 11 to get a
>user's home
>directory. See
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnucmg/html/ucmgch09.asp and
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/netmgmt/netmgmt/netuser
getinfo.asp
> (Thinks: using this requires linking with NetAPI32.dll - is that a
legal
> or practical problem for us?)
This is already done by libpq if compiled on Win32. Which means also
psql.exe is linked against it on Win32. (see win32.mak in
interfaces/libpq).
So it shuoldn't be a problem, I think.
//Magnus
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