| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Joerg Hessdoerfer <Joerg(dot)Hessdoerfer(at)sea-gmbh(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: 8.0 Beta 1 // Environment Vars // .pgpass |
| Date: | 2004-08-13 13:20:30 |
| Message-ID: | 411CC01E.5060601@dunslane.net |
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Joerg Hessdoerfer wrote:
>On Thursday 12 August 2004 06:25, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>
>>"efesar (the kay)" <efesar(at)unm(dot)edu> writes:
>>
>>
>>>The 8.0 version does not acknowledge env vars like PGPASSWORD and seems
>>>to ignore the contents of the .pgpass file.
>>>
>>>
>>Hmmm. Those are probably the same problem, since finding .pgpass
>>depends on expanding the $HOME env var. But I have no idea why
>>env vars aren't working for you ...
>>
>>
>Yep. AFAIK, $HOME doesn't always exist in WIN32, but $HOMEDRIVE and $HOMEPATH
>(or %HOMEPATH% and %HOMEDRIVE% ;-) do. Perhaps PG needs to do some munging to
>build the home path from those two?
>
>
>
>
On my XP-Pro machine the appropriate setting appears to be %USERPROFILE%
- %HOMEPATH% is just "\"
See here for a complete list of available environment vars:
http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/23873/23873.html
cheers
andrew
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