Tom Lane wrote:
> Casey Duncan <casey@pandora.com> writes:
> > I guess the downside there is that it won't work on platforms that
> > don't support symlinks, whereas the postmaster switch would. Not that
> > I condone using such platforms ;^)
>
> Well, we already bit that bullet with respect to tablespaces, and
> haven't gotten much of any pushback. So I don't see it as a problem
> here.
Note that if Casey is thinking that Win32 does not support symlinks, he
is wrong (we do support tablespaces there).
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