| From: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pg_backup symlink? |
| Date: | 2000-07-10 23:16:31 |
| Message-ID: | 3.0.5.32.20000711091631.02a00cc0@mail.rhyme.com.au |
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At 18:58 10/07/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>There are dozens of other examples in any standard Unix system. Just
>to take one example, 'ls' has six different links to it on my Unix box,
>and they all act differently (ie, supply different default switches to
>the basic 'ls' behavior).
>
>Peter is definitely swimming upstream if he hopes to get anyone to adopt
>the above as received wisdom.
>
Does this mean that using a pg_backup symlink would be deemed acceptable?
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