Re: open item: tablespace handing in pg_dump/pg_restore

From: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
Cc: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Greg Stark" <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: open item: tablespace handing in pg_dump/pg_restore
Date: 2004-10-12 12:01:16
Message-ID: 87vfdg16yb.fsf@stark.xeocode.com
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"Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> writes:

> No, it's file system.
> Junctions will not work on NT OS:es with FAT32.
> Directory junctions require NTFSv5, which is only available on Windows
> 2000 and newer.

So then there really has to be a run-time check for this. Either at initdb
time, or at the time the database tries to create the link. You can't know at
compile-time whether the filesystem the database will be on will support
junctions.

--
greg

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