Tom Lane wrote:
John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
more fun. I just checked the environment of the postmaster service on a win2000 Pro system (using www.sysinternals.com's excellent Process Explorer tool, btw). HOME is not set. USERPROFILE is set to "C:\Documents and Settings\postgres"...
Actually, the server doesn't depend on home directories in any way shape or form. The places that we are concerned about are on the client side, either in libpq or in psql. So what we have to think about is the environment that libpq might see.
Right but I think the point is that the environment variable HOME does not exist on windows. At least I have never seen it. I think it does exist inside CYGWIN (perhaps in mingw also?) might the use of the HOME variable be related to the Cygwin port?
The standard env variables relevant to this conversation are the two I mentioned before (HOMEDRIVE, HOMEPATH) and the one mentioned above (USERPROFILE) which seems to be equivalent to HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH concatenated together.
Matthew
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