Re: psql \i handling ~ in specified file name

>Zach Irmen said:
>> "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>>> What happens if getenv("HOME") returns NULL?
>>
>> Yeah, the strdup fails. I'll take it out to fix that.
>>
>>> You also need to think about Windows
>>
>> Can I just ifndef WIN32 and not think about it? I'm not sure how that
>> would work either.
>>
>
>If we are going to have a Windows port I don't think we should
>treat it as
>a poor cousin.
>
>This information is easily discoverable on MSDN in 5 minutes.
>The answer
>is that you need to call NetUserGetInfo at level 11 to get a
>user's home
>directory. See
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnucmg/html/ucmgch09.asp and
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/netmgmt/netmgmt/netuser
getinfo.asp

> (Thinks: using this requires linking with NetAPI32.dll - is that a
legal
> or practical problem for us?)

This is already done by libpq if compiled on Win32. Which means also
psql.exe is linked against it on Win32. (see win32.mak in
interfaces/libpq).

So it shuoldn't be a problem, I think.


//Magnus