On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Peter Eisentraut <
peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> On 11/13/14 4:33 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> Is this still relevant after this commit?
> >> >
> >> > commit fb05f3ce83d225dd0f39f8860ce04082753e9e98
> >> > Author: Peter Eisentraut <
peter_e@gmx.net>
> >> > Date: Sat Feb 22 13:38:06 2014 -0500
> >> >
> >> > pg_basebackup: Add support for relocating tablespaces
> > I believe so.
> >
> > The commit only applies to "plain" output. Amit's complaint is that tar
> > utilities on Windows don't unpack symlinks, so the "tar" format isn't
> > useful on Windows when tablespaces are used. So he wants the recovery
> > mechanism to restore the symlinks.
>
> Um, wouldn't accepting this patch break the above-mentioned
> tablespace-relocation feature, because pg_basebackup wouldn't see any
> more symlinks sent down?
No, the new feature is implemented only for tar format and above feature
works only with plain format. It will still send the symlink information as
previously for plain format.
