On Apr 8, 2005, at 4:00 PM, David A. Leedom wrote:
I found that the registry entries use a GUID product code on the final node of the registry. Is there any way to link this back to the running database?
I could hard code the product codes into my backup app. If for some reason there are more than one Postgres installs on one system would there be a way to determine the product code of the database I am backing up via the connect string? (System tables/variables?)
Another possibility is that I could include the pg_dump/restore utilities with the backup app and set it up to only backup databases of the correct version.
One idea is to use "pg_ctl.exe status" to determine if the server associated with the registry entry is running. I think you'll also need to specify the data directory with this command, so hopefully that is in the registry also.
John DeSoi, Ph.D. http://pgedit.com/ Power Tools for PostgreSQL
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