Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] What's left?

From: David Felstead <David(dot)Felstead(at)colesmyer(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "'pgsql-hackers-win32 '" <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "'PostgreSQL-development '" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: "'Claudio Natoli'" <claudio(dot)natoli(at)memetrics(dot)com>, "'Andrew Dunstan '" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] What's left?
Date: 2004-01-23 00:44:41
Message-ID: DB52470712E0D611889E0002A52CE3080537B5D5@ariel.colesmyer.com.au
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Hi all,

Might I just suggest good old "C:\PostgreSQL" ?

MS SQL server defaults to C:\MSSQL, so I don't think that a directory in the
root path is unreasonable. Further, it makes it look more important if it
installs in the root directory :)

All the best,

-David Felstead

Claudio Natoli wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > Claudio Natoli wrote:
> >
> > > * installation directory issues (/usr/local/pgsql/bin won't work too
> > > well outside of the MingW environment :-)
> >
> >
> > Clearly we will need an installer for a binary distribution.
>
> Yes. To be more precise, my point was that doing so will require some
> changes to the code (ie. configure/compile time constants like PKGLIBDIR
> just won't do us any good).
>
>
> > But for now I suggest that the default prefix on Windows is
> > C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL
>
> For right now, I'd suggest a directory that doesn't have whitespace and
> localization issues :-P
>
> Cheers,
> Claudio

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