On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:53:13PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > David Fetter wrote: > >Folks, > > > >I'm trying to get pg_service.conf working on Windows so we can > >standardize on a way of doing things cross-platform, and noticed > >that > > > >pg_config.exe --configure > > why are you using this flag? if you leave it off you will see > everything.
Per IRC discussion, there's no default set in the windows distribution. > >doesn't report anything by way of --sysconfdir, which in turn means > >that people have to do some fragile hackery in order even to see a > >pg_service.conf file. Can we put such a configuration directive > >into the binary builds? Is this known to work? > > In any case, the default is $prefix/etc which is probably not what > you want anyway - why not set the PGSYSCONFDIR environment variable > to point to where you put the service file? Let's turn that question around. Why *shouldn't* there be a default built in? "No default" seems like a pretty poor fall-through. Cheers, D -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
