Re: registry vs. environment (was re:binary

From: Ronald Kuczek <kuczek(at)kuczek(dot)pl>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: registry vs. environment (was re:binary
Date: 2004-02-12 18:37:24
Message-ID: 402BC7E4.3010502@kuczek.pl
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Użytkownik Bruce Momjian wrote:

>I assumed all environment variables would be exported to the process.
>The problem is allowing environment variables to override registry
>settings.
>
>One idea would be to do both --- if an environment variable isn't set,
>get the value from the registry and set the envronment variable. If the
>environment variable is set, use that instead of the registry --- that
>might be the best of both worlds.
>
>

Enviroment variables are stored in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\Environment.
There is no problem to look there if any variable is set or not and - to
add a registry key with new variable or to modify existing.

Rony

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