| From: | JanWieck(at)t-online(dot)de (Jan Wieck) |
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| To: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu> |
| Subject: | Re: Big 7.1 open items |
| Date: | 2000-06-18 00:36:01 |
| Message-ID: | 200006180036.CAA07529@hot.jw.home |
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Don Baccus wrote:
> At 11:46 AM 6/16/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> I personally dislike depending on symlinks to move stuff around.
> Among other things, a pg_dump/restore (and presumably future
> backup tools?) can't recreate the disk layout automatically.
>
Most impact from this one, IMHO.
Not that Oracle tools are able to do it either. But I think
it's more trivial to recreate a 30+ tablespace layout on the
disks than to recreate all symlinks for a 20,000+
tables/indices database like an SAP R/3 one.
Jan
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