On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 10:04:12AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Julien Rouhaud <rjuju...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 02:42:11PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote: > >> The attached patch tweaks the wording around finding the psqlrc file > >> on windows, with the primary goal of removing the generally incorrect > >> statement that windows has no concept of a home directory. > > > Windows only has a concept of home directory since Vista, so that used to be > > true. > > Anyway, since we don't support XP or anything older since about 3 weeks ago > > (495ed0ef2d72a6a74def296e042022479d5d07bd), +1 for the patch. > > If all supported versions do have home directories now, should we > instead think about aligning the Windows behavior with everywhere > else?
As far as I know the expected usage on Windows is still different. Even with home directories application are still expected to put stuff in %APPDATA% (1), in a dedicated directory. That's especially important since there is still no concept of "hidden" files and the explorer still hides the extensions by default. I can however see that having a file named ".something" is now mostly working, which IIRC wasn't really the case the last time I used Windows (around XP). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_folder#File_system_directories
