| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Mike Mascari <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PGXLOG variable worthwhile? |
| Date: | 2002-09-12 16:04:03 |
| Message-ID: | 200209121604.g8CG43J02210@candle.pha.pa.us |
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scott.marlowe wrote:
> > Seems like the NT4 users are left out in the cold though until we add
> > some kind of ability for PostgreSQL to not look at the filesystem for
> > info about where to put the xlog files.
>
> This isn't true. With the resource kit, you get the gnu utils, and ln
> works a charm under NT4 with ntfs. And not just for directories, but
> files as well. Unless Microsoft somehow removed that functionality in the
> intervening years since I've used NT. (wouldn't put it past them, but I
> doubt they have.)
Yes, this is what I remember, that Cygwin had symlinks, and at that time
that was the only Win32 OS we supported. Now, with native Win32 port
coming, we have to figure out what is available.
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