| From: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
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| To: | "Massa, Harald Armin" <chef(at)ghum(dot)de> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: "1-Click" installer problems |
| Date: | 2010-04-01 11:48:39 |
| Message-ID: | h2z937d27e11004010448ja433970et8aea7417e7ccb0c8@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Massa, Harald Armin <chef(at)ghum(dot)de> wrote:
> Dave,
>>
>> >
>> > IIRC, that was modeled on where Microsofts own SQL Server put it's
>> > data files by default. Does anybody know if that has changed recently?
>>
>> It hasn't. I checked 2008 this morning.
>>
>
> And how does SQL Server fiddle that with Windows 7? My experience is that W7
> is "not amused" when trying to put data below Programs and Files (x86), as I
> described within:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2009-01/msg00783.php
I have no idea how SQL Server does it. There was a minor amount of
magic required to get our installers to work without Windows trying to
redirect the writes, but I forget what that was exactly now.
--
Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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