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From Itagaki Takahiro
Subject Re: BUG #5674: initdb failed if path contains symlink
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Msg-id AANLkTi=-h4VZGrQ5dn6m8kWmU4_bxyGLspU1Y56bnQ-v@mail.gmail.com
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In response to BUG #5674: initdb failed if path contains symlink  ("Itagaki Takahiro" <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Itagaki Takahiro
<itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Windows 7 supports symbolic links like UNIX,
> but initdb cannot initialize a database cluster
> if the path (-D) contains symlinks.

The bug might come from the following bug by Microsoft:

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/595553/stat-function-returns-error-for-directory-symbolic-links

Note that initdb in 8.4 worked expectedly because it is built with MSVC 2005,
but initdb in 9.0 won't work because built with MSVC 2008 :-( .

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Itagaki Takahiro

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