Hi all,

Might I just suggest good old "C:\PostgreSQL" ?

MS SQL server defaults to C:\MSSQL, so I don't think that a directory in the
root path is unreasonable.  Further, it makes it look more important if it
installs in the root directory :)

All the best,

-David Felstead

Claudio Natoli wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > Claudio Natoli wrote:
> > 
> > > * installation directory issues (/usr/local/pgsql/bin won't work too
> > > well outside of the MingW environment :-)
> >
> > 
> > Clearly we will need an installer for a binary distribution. 
> 
> Yes. To be more precise, my point was that doing so will require some
> changes to the code (ie. configure/compile time constants like PKGLIBDIR
> just won't do us any good).
> 
> 
> > But for now I suggest that the default prefix on Windows is 
> > C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL
> 
> For right now, I'd suggest a directory that doesn't have whitespace and
> localization issues :-P
> 
> Cheers,
> Claudio
Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:44:41 +1100
David Felstead <David.Felstead@colesmyer.com.au>
Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] What's left?
> Might I just suggest good old "C:\PostgreSQL" ?
>
> MS SQL server defaults to C:\MSSQL, so I don't think that a directory in
the
> root path is unreasonable.  Further, it makes it look more important if it
> installs in the root directory :)

Don't do that.  I hate software that does that.  To me it immediately
screams "WE DON'T CARE ABOUT DOING THINGS RIGHT!".

my 2cents
Later
Rob


Thu, 22 Jan 2004 20:34:38 -0500
"Rob Butler" <robert.butler5@verizon.net>
Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] What's left?