| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Moving tablespaces |
| Date: | 2011-12-04 16:55:41 |
| Message-ID: | 4EDBA60D.2050904@dunslane.net |
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On 12/04/2011 11:41 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> 1) Remove the column. Rely on the symlink. Create a
>> pg_get_tablespace_location(oid) function, that could be used by
>> pg_dumpall and friends, that just reads the symlink.
> Hm, how portable is symlink-reading? If we can actually do that
> without big headaches, then +1.
>
I wondered that, specifically about Windows junction points, but we seem
to have support for it already in dirmod.c::pgreadlink(). Surely there's
no other currently supported platform where it would even be a question?
cheers
andrew
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