Re: Win32 tablespace - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Andreas Pflug
Subject Re: Win32 tablespace
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Msg-id 41135831.3020000@pse-consulting.de
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In response to Re: Win32 tablespace  ("Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>)
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Dave Page wrote:

>
> This is obviously win2k+ only though -


There's a chance it might work on NT4 with >=SP4, because AFAIR the
updated NTFS driver already understands the W2K format.

> until now we've tried to support NT4 as well, although it seems that we
> can't get initdb to work as we'd like in the installer on that platform.
> Should we officially support 2K+ only?

Since NT4 isn't supported by M$ for quite some time now, it seems
reasonable to mark it as "does run with issues, but not officially
supported". The installer would have to skip initdb, and display a
lengthy read-carefully-readme how to continue manually.

Regards,
Andreas


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