Re: Antw: Re: Patch for NetWare support - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Antw: Re: Patch for NetWare support
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0208121633200.9780-100000@cm-lcon1-46-187.cm.vtr.net
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In response to Re: Antw: Re: Patch for NetWare support  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut dijo:

> Ulrich Neumann writes:
>
> > at the moment NetWare doesn't have symbolic links so it's the only
> > chance for me to decide between postmaster, bootstrap or normal
> > interactive backend.
>
> Does it have hard links?  Does it have 'ln' at all?  Otherwise we should
> define $(LN_S) to 'cp' and just make a copy.  That way we avoid patching
> up the code.

Doesn't the cp trick invalidate the fork-no-exec performance
optimization?

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]atentus.com>)
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