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. -- Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026