>>
>> It seems faily simple to yank these values out, no? Even easier if you use
>> the all-in-wonder shell function SHGetValue().
>
> We don't want to use that function, because it brings in a bunch of
> extra dependencies. This makes libpq.dll more heavyweight and more
> importantly, decreases the number of parallell connections we can deal
> with on the server side (on win32 at least, not sure about win64).
>
Oh, didn't know that. Are the standard reg functions, open/query/close
really that bad? Can't be any worse than the security api or MAPI hell ;)
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