Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Tablespaces - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Tablespaces
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Msg-id 200403031331.i23DV7i14780@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Tablespaces  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> My feeling is that we need not support tablespaces on OS's without
> >> symlinks.
>
> > Agreed, but are we going to support non-tablespace installs?  I wasn't
> > sure that was an option.
>
> A setup containing only the default tablespace cannot use any symlinks.
> That doesn't seem hard though.

Yea, I think you are right.  We just disable CREATE TABLESPACE and the
rest should just work.  Basically, pg_tablespace will only have one
entry on those platforms.  The initdb directory structure will have a
single tablespace, but that doesn't use symlinks.

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