Re: Big 7.1 open items

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-06-21T03:46:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Some unhappiness was raised about
> > depending on symlinks for this function, but I didn't hear one single
> > concrete reason not to do it, nor an alternative design. 
> 
> Are symlinks portable?

Sure, and if the system loading it can not create the required symlinks
because the directories don't exist, it can just skip the symlink step.

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