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