Re: Big 7.1 open items - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Big 7.1 open items
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Msg-id 200006210346.XAA15138@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Big 7.1 open items  (Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>)
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> 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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