Re: win2k, service, pg_ctl, popen, etc

Andreas Pflug <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> 
> As I understand it, Windows has a standard set of DLL/EXE metadata 
> (build number, copyright, product name yadda yadda yadda) stored in some 
> well-known segment of the file. Is there any reason we can't put the 
> version number somewhere in there and use some standard API to extract 
> it, rather than running the .exe to make it tell us? (Not that I have 
> any idea how to do such a thing.)

It's the VERSION resource, look at GetFileVersionInfo in the docs.

Regards,
Andreas

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