From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Moving tablespaces
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:55:41 -0500
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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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