Re: Win32 PostgreSQL 8.0 Beta 1 Installer available for download

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johan Paul Glutting [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 10 August 2004 10:22
> To: Aleksander Kmetec
> Cc: Dave Page; [email protected]; 
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Win32 PostgreSQL 8.0 Beta 
> 1 Installer available for download
> 
> Sorry Aleksander, but I can't really remember what I did. I 
> had a service running from a Cygwin install of  Postgres, and 
> I was messing around with the command line for 
> installing/uninstalling the service, and had to reboot 
> several times. I initially tried to change the path of the 
> sevice executable, and it was a big mess. This was the 
> unzippable version of Postgres from about a moth ago, so it 
> is not really relevant to this installer.
> 
> As an aside, Dave, can we get the \bin and \lib paths in the 
> PATH variable as part of the install? I am not sure if that 
> will create a mess if they are already there ...

We're trying to avoid that to prevent problems with multiple
installations on the same machine. All the shortcuts to psql, and
backups/restores from pgAdmin should work fine without. 

> Also, my PGDATA variable is still set at c:\postgres\data - 
> but it does not seem to have an effect on Postgres. I am 
> going to try accessing postgres with some python modules, and 
> see what that does.

The service is installed with the -D option to specify the data
directory (iirc) which overrides any environment variables - again, this
is to allow multiple installations in the future.

Regards, Dave.

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