Re: 8.0 Beta 1 // Environment Vars // .pgpass

Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Joerg Hessdoerfer wrote:

>On Thursday 12 August 2004 06:25, Tom Lane wrote:
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>>"efesar (the kay)" <[email protected]> writes:
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>>>The 8.0 version does not acknowledge env vars like PGPASSWORD and seems
>>>to ignore the contents of the .pgpass file.
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>>>
>>Hmmm.   Those are probably the same problem, since finding .pgpass
>>depends on expanding the $HOME env var.  But I have no idea why
>>env vars aren't working for you ...
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>Yep. AFAIK, $HOME doesn't always exist in WIN32, but $HOMEDRIVE and $HOMEPATH 
>(or %HOMEPATH% and %HOMEDRIVE% ;-) do. Perhaps PG needs to do some munging to 
>build the home path from those two?
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On my XP-Pro machine the appropriate setting appears to be %USERPROFILE% 
- %HOMEPATH% is just "\"

See here for a complete list of available environment vars:

http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/23873/23873.html

cheers

andrew

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