| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Casey Duncan <casey(at)pandora(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] xlog directory at initdb time |
| Date: | 2007-01-02 20:21:01 |
| Message-ID: | 20070102202101.GB6589@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Casey Duncan <casey(at)pandora(dot)com> writes:
> > I guess the downside there is that it won't work on platforms that
> > don't support symlinks, whereas the postmaster switch would. Not that
> > I condone using such platforms ;^)
>
> Well, we already bit that bullet with respect to tablespaces, and
> haven't gotten much of any pushback. So I don't see it as a problem
> here.
Note that if Casey is thinking that Win32 does not support symlinks, he
is wrong (we do support tablespaces there).
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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