Re: win2k, service, pg_ctl, popen, etc

Dave Page wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: pgsql-hackers-win32-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
>>[mailto:pgsql-hackers-win32-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf
>>Of Magnus Hagander
>>Sent: 21 July 2004 15:32
>>To: Andrew Dunstan; pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org
>>Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] win2k, service, pg_ctl, popen, etc
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>>Actually, if we want the string, we could always create a string table
>>resource and store it in that. And then load it with LoadString(). We
>>just need to be sure we store the exact same thing there, but a string
>>resource will support any null terminated string.
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>Alternatively we can just use one of the other fields in the version
>resource such as ProductVersion.
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My reading suggests you can actually put a string with an arbitrary name
in this resource.

cheers

andrew