Re: registry vs. environment (was re:binary installer)

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Merlin Moncure" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com> writes:
> > I think there are a couple of things about this issue that have not been
> > completely thought out.  Moving off of an environment based home
> > variable should not be taken lightly.  Switching the runtime environment
> > variables to use the registry will have several unintended consequences:
>
> I agree that we do not want to start hacking the parts of the code that
> depend on environment variables.  A reasonable compromise would probably
> be to have a small chunk of Windows-specific code at startup that reads
> the registry and installs the values it finds there by doing putenv().
> Thereafter everything operates the same as on Unix.

Added to Win32 project page:

    <li>store setting in the registry and set environment
    variables in the process</li>

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