John,
Thanks for getting back to me.
I found that the registry entries use a GUID product code on the final node of the registry. Is there any way to link this back to the running database?
I could hard code the product codes into my backup app. If for some reason there are more than one Postgres installs on one system would there be a way to determine the product code of the database I am backing up via the connect string? (System tables/variables?)
Another possibility is that I could include the pg_dump/restore utilities with the backup app and set it up to only backup databases of the correct version.
Anyone have any further thoughts.
Dave Leedom
At 03:13 PM 4/8/2005, John DeSoi wrote:
On Apr 8, 2005, at 2:14 PM, David A. Leedom wrote:
Is there an easy way to find out where a the PostgreSQL bin files are located so I can get the pg_dump and pg_restore utilities?
I think the installer puts this information in the registry. If you don't get a more authoritative response, you might want to take a look at the installer source file (a Wix xml document) for the exact registry setup.
http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/pginstaller/
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