Re: Big 7.1 open items

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Chris Bitmead <chrisb(at)nimrod(dot)itg(dot)telstra(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Big 7.1 open items
Date: 2000-06-21 03:46:23
Message-ID: 200006210346.XAA15138@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Some unhappiness was raised about
> > depending on symlinks for this function, but I didn't hear one single
> > concrete reason not to do it, nor an alternative design.
>
> Are symlinks portable?

Sure, and if the system loading it can not create the required symlinks
because the directories don't exist, it can just skip the symlink step.

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