AW: Big 7.1 open items

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
To: "'Bruce Momjian'" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Chris Bitmead <chrisb(at)nimrod(dot)itg(dot)telstra(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: AW: Big 7.1 open items
Date: 2000-06-21 15:00:44
Message-ID: 219F68D65015D011A8E000006F8590C605BA5986@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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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.

You could point them to another drive if your OS allows you to mount a
filesystem under an arbitrary name, no ?

Andreas

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