Re: win32 tablespace handing - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: win32 tablespace handing
Date
Msg-id 200410051759.i95Hxcl05402@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to win32 tablespace handing  (Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at>)
Responses Re: win32 tablespace handing
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Reini Urban wrote:
> Reini Urban schrieb:
> > Cygwin can do symlinks for directories via the magic .lnk file.
> > But Cygwin can also do junctions via hardlinks in ln.exe.
> > I thought link() calls the junction code.
> > I'll investigate why the libc link() failed, and if ln.exe does some
> > sifferent magic, similar to pgsymlink.
>
> I thought a little bit over this.
>
> hardlinks and junctions don't work across physical disks, only symlinks.

Where did you read this?  I just looked and can see no such restriction.

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