Re: Automatic Backups

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "David A(dot) Leedom" <daleedom(at)hightowergroup(dot)com>, <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Automatic Backups
Date: 2005-04-09 13:43:45
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE6C7247@algol.sollentuna.se
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>I am writing a program to backup Postgres 8.0 installed on windows via
>Visual Basic.
>
>Is there an easy way to find out where a the PostgreSQL bin files are
>located so I can get the pg_dump and pg_restore utilities?

It's stored in the registry under
HKLM\Software\PostgreSQL\Installations\<version id>\Bin Directory

For 8.0.x, version id is {5AA3FA26-72A2-4D06-9BFE-98E650A37B6D}.

//Magnus

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