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Re: Big 7.1 open items

Jan Wieck <janwieck@t-online.de>

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From: JanWieck@t-online.de (Jan Wieck)
To: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>, Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu>
Date: 2000-06-18T00:36:01Z
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Don Baccus wrote:
> At 11:46 AM 6/16/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> I personally dislike depending on symlinks to move stuff around.
> Among other things, a pg_dump/restore (and presumably future
> backup tools?) can't recreate the disk layout automatically.
>

    Most impact from this one, IMHO.

    Not  that  Oracle tools are able to do it either. But I think
    it's more trivial to recreate a 30+ tablespace layout on  the
    disks   than   to   recreate   all  symlinks  for  a  20,000+
    tables/indices database like an SAP R/3 one.


Jan

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