John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Seems like we should be consistent about this --- either we trust $HOME
>> or we don't.
> 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"...
> For services that are running as 'NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM', the profile is
> "C:\Documents and Settings\Default User" (and the USERDOMAIN and USERNAME
> aren't set at all)...
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.
regards, tom lane
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