Re: Alternative database locations are broken

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
Cc: Vadim Mikheev <vmikheev(at)sectorbase(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Alternative database locations are broken
Date: 2000-11-06 17:13:31
Message-ID: 6634.973530811@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu> writes:
> Hmm, I know NT's not really a target, supported OS, but enshrining
> symlinks in a the design of a backend feature makes it really difficult
> to keep even the semblance of support.

As long as we don't require symlinks to exist for standard setups,
I have no trouble at all with decreeing that alternate database
locations won't work on NT.

regards, tom lane

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