On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Massa, Harald Armin <chef@ghum.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.
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Dave Page
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