Re: registry vs. environment (was re:binary

["Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>]

> > I'm not clear *which* settings it is proposed to set in the 
> registry,
> > nor how possible it will be to override the settings, and 
> with which 
> > mechanism.
> 
> I pretty much agree with Andrew here. Frankly, I think this 
> whole discussion "registry vs env" is a bit pointless.
> 
> What *exactly* does anyone think will need to be put in the registry?
> 
> Surely, our Win32 service wrapper can just allow something like this:
> 
> 	postgres /regserver servicename <command line args go here>
> 
> So, if I want to have multiple servers registered, I could do:
> 	postgres /regserver MyPGServer_1 -D c:/data1
> 	postgres /regserver MyPGServer_2 -D c:/data2
> and so on.

Where do you plan to store this data, if not in the registry?

Can *all* env variable settings be set on the commandline as well? If
so, we can just use a single registry key to store a commandline for the
service.  If not, then there need to be some way of changing them
per-instance.


> And of course, you can always run another instance from the 
> command line, or have a single instance registered that takes 
> all its args from the environment, or ...

Yes, certainly.


//Magnus