Re: Resurrecting pg_upgrade - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Resurrecting pg_upgrade
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Msg-id 21614.1071260304@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Resurrecting pg_upgrade  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> re Windows: pipes, yes, hard links, no (and no sane symlinks either) - 
> also of course no (sane) shell - is this going to be a script or a C 
> program?

C, certainly.

> Maybe use an option which you would disable on Windows to copy the files 
> instead of hardlinking them. Yes it would take lots more time and space, 
> but copying raw files would surely still be a lot faster than loading 
> the dump.

Yeah, that's what we'll have to do if there's no hard-link capability.
        regards, tom lane


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