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Re: Big 7.1 open items

Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>

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From: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@yahoo.com>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu>
Date: 2000-06-19T04:07:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
At 11:13 PM 6/18/00 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>My basic proposal is that we optionally allow symlinks when creating
>tablespace directories, and that we interrogate those symlinks during a
>dump so administrators can move tablespaces around without having to
>modify environment variables or system tables.

If they can move them around from within the db, they'll have no need to
move them around from outside the db. 

I don't quite understand your devotion to using filesystem commands
outside the database to do database administration.



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