On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Jim Michaels<jmich...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > The following bug has been logged online: > > Bug reference: 4951 > Logged by: Jim Michaels > Email address: jmich...@yahoo.com > PostgreSQL version: 8.4.0 > Operating system: Win XP Pro Sp3 > Description: installation dir wrong for libpq compilation > Details: > > it is impossible to compile in libpq headers unless the installation > directory for postgres has no spaces. compilers such as gcc/mingw don't > like that.
Double-quoting the paths works fine for me. > you had it right the first time for 8.3.7 installing pgsql in > c:\postgresplus. Postgres Plus is a different product. > even if it's c:\postgresql that would be fine, just as > long as it's not > c:\program files\postgresql. %ProgramFiles%\xxxx is the Microsoft-recommended installation location for all applications. Iirc, you can't get a 'Designed for Windows' certification unless your installation defaults to there. Besides, it's only a default - if you don't like it, it's trivial to choose another location. > besides, on vista c:\program files is a protected directory, and writes to > that directory may end up somewhere else in a virtual store if the program > does not have a vista-compatible manifest. We've done a lot of work to ensure that is never a problem, and after hundreds of thousands of downloads, it certainly isn't something anyone has ever reported as an issue that I'm aware of. Regards, Dave -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
