At 18:58 10/07/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>There are dozens of other examples in any standard Unix system. Just
>to take one example, 'ls' has six different links to it on my Unix box,
>and they all act differently (ie, supply different default switches to
>the basic 'ls' behavior).
>
>Peter is definitely swimming upstream if he hopes to get anyone to adopt
>the above as received wisdom.
>
Does this mean that using a pg_backup symlink would be deemed acceptable?
----------------------------------------------------------------
Philip Warner | __---_____
Albatross Consulting Pty. Ltd. |----/ - \
(A.C.N. 008 659 498) | /(@) ______---_
Tel: (+61) 0500 83 82 81 | _________ \
Fax: (+61) 0500 83 82 82 | ___________ |
Http://www.rhyme.com.au | / \| | --________--
PGP key available upon request, | /
and from pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371 |/