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 14:55:39
Message-ID: 200006211455.KAA07092@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > 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.
>
> What I meant is, would you still be able to create tablespaces on
> systems without symlinks? That would seem to be a desirable feature.

You could create tablespaces, but you could not point them at different
drives. The issue is that we don't store the symlink location in the
database, just the tablespace name.

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