From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> |
Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [BUGS] More SSL questions.. |
Date: | 2005-01-06 03:07:56 |
Message-ID: | 200501060307.j0637uO19168@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> The comment in the API for the profile directory says:
> Version 5.0. The user's profile folder. A typical path is C:\Documents
> and Settings\username. Applications should not create files or folders
> at this level; they should put their data under the locations referred
> to by CSIDL_APPDATA or CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA.
>
> I think we should stay away from that one if possible.
>
> For the MSI install we could always add icons to edit the config file if
> people have a hard time finding it...
>
> The files are not hidden any more than they are hidden on unix by being
> named ".postgresql". I don't see this as a big problem.
With Unix you know you can do cd .postgresql or 'ls -a'. I think on
Win32 almost everyone is using the file explorer and I don't see any
clean way for them to get into "Application Data" other than by
modifying the directory properties. Do you?
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