Re: Win32 link() function - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> AFAIK hard links simply don't exist on Windows.
> 
> > Magnus showed me this:
> >     http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363860(VS.85).aspx
> 
> Hmm, interesting.  Are we requiring our DBs to be on NTFS already?

I think we require NTFS with the installers but you can install the
source on anything:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Running_%26_Installing_PostgreSQL_On_Native_Windows#Can_I_install_PostgreSQL_on_a_FAT_partition.3FFor
thisreason, the PostgreSQL installer package will not initialise adatabase cluster on anything but an NTFS partition.
Theserver andutilities may be installed on any partition type. 
 

> What are the implications for Cygwin?

No idea.

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