[Qgis-developer] pg_services on Windows

[Jeff McKenna]

On 2016-09-09 11:13 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>
> I was successful with
> set PGSERVICEFILE=C:\Users\John\Desktop\pg_service.conf
> (with "C:\Users..." it failed).
> Subsequent startup of QGIS however hung out, even after rebooting the
> machine.

Another note, obvious but I must mention: be careful with using the 
"set=" method, to set environment variables at the commandline, on 
Windows - this is only temporary, in that command window, meaning that 
another tool such as QGIS has no access to that temporary variable.  You 
must set a SYSTEM environment variable, through Control Panel/System and 
Security/System/Advanced system settings/Environment Variables.   And be 
sure to set a "SYSTEM" variable through that interface (you could lose 
sleep and hair later if you try to set a USER variable and can't 
understand why it isn't found by some software).  This is important.

Maybe that info helps someone reading this thread later someday :)

-jeff


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Jeff McKenna
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