Re: pg_backup symlink? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Philip Warner
Subject Re: pg_backup symlink?
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Msg-id 3.0.5.32.20000711091631.02a00cc0@mail.rhyme.com.au
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In response to Re: pg_backup symlink?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: pg_backup symlink?  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>)
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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?


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