| From: | Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> |
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| To: | Thomas Swan <tswan(at)idigx(dot)com>, jearl(at)bullysports(dot)com |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD <zeugswettera(at)spardat(dot)at>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, PostgreSQL Win32 port list <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Tablespaces |
| Date: | 2004-03-05 09:02:36 |
| Message-ID: | 200403050902.36167.dev@archonet.com |
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On Friday 05 March 2004 07:51, Thomas Swan wrote:
>
> Apparently, I have failed tremendously in addressing a concern. The
> question is does PostgreSQL need to rely on symlinks and will that
> dependency introduce problems?
>
> There is an active win32 port underway (see this mailing list). One
> proposal was to try to use an OS specific filesystem feature to perform
> a symlink on NTFS. Can the special symlink that NTFS allegedly supports
> be archived the same way symlinks are archived on Unix? If so, is there
> a utility that can do this (zip, tar, etc).
Why not try and find out?
http://www.nedprod.com/programs/Win32/SymLink/
This will apparently create symlinks on NTFS5 volumes via a simple dialogue
box.
You'd probably want to test using pkzip/winzip, Symantec/Norton - anyone think
of any others?
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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