Hi all,
While playing with tablespaces and recovery in a TAP test, I have
noticed that retrieving the location of a tablespace created with
allow_in_place_tablespaces enabled fails in pg_tablespace_location(),
because readlink() sees a directory in this case.
The use may be limited to any automated testing and
allow_in_place_tablespaces is a developer GUC, still it seems to me
that there is an argument to allow the case rather than tweak any
tests to hardcode a path with the tablespace OID. And any other code
paths are able to handle such tablespaces, be they in recovery or in
tablespace create/drop.
A junction point is a directory on WIN32 as far as I recall, but
pgreadlink() is here to ensure that we get the correct path on
a source found as pgwin32_is_junction(), so we can rely on that. This
stuff has led me to the attached.
Thoughts?
--
Michael