Re: Big 7.1 open items

From: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
Subject: Re: Big 7.1 open items
Date: 2000-06-19 04:07:48
Message-ID: 3.0.1.32.20000618210748.011d1c40@mail.pacifier.com
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At 11:13 PM 6/18/00 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>My basic proposal is that we optionally allow symlinks when creating
>tablespace directories, and that we interrogate those symlinks during a
>dump so administrators can move tablespaces around without having to
>modify environment variables or system tables.

If they can move them around from within the db, they'll have no need to
move them around from outside the db.

I don't quite understand your devotion to using filesystem commands
outside the database to do database administration.

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
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