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How to find the PostgreSQL installation folder via Java without user interaction?

In my Java application I want to implement the option to dump/restore a PostgreSQL database. Some google research showed me that calling pg_dump/pg_restore via Java's ProcessBuilder is probably the best way to开发者_StackOverflow中文版 achieve this.

Now I'd like to determine the system's directory of pg_dump.exe/pg_restore.exe without asking the user to specify it manually. How can I find the PostgreSQL installation path through Java?

Thanks in advance and all the best,

Matthias


You can't do that portably. I suggest that you just call the programs without path by default and rely on the user having set an appropriate path, and have a way for the user to configure the paths explicitly. You can also look in some likely directories for a default configuration. But it will be quite fragile in general, especially if you want to cover all of Windows, Linux, and Mac, say.


A good idea would be to simply define an environment variable called PG_HOME and use System.getEnv("PG_HOME"); to retrieve that.


  1. Look inside the default directories first (probably somewhere C:\Program Files (x86)\PostgreSQL\...). Use different combinations to be as tolerable as possible.

  2. If it fails, just search the file system. Nice example here.

  3. Also see How to do a backup from a Postgresql-DB via JDBC?

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