Re: Big 7.1 open items

Don Baccus wrote:
> At 11:46 AM 6/16/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> I personally dislike depending on symlinks to move stuff around.
> Among other things, a pg_dump/restore (and presumably future
> backup tools?) can't recreate the disk layout automatically.
>
   Most impact from this one, IMHO.
   Not  that  Oracle tools are able to do it either. But I think   it's more trivial to recreate a 30+ tablespace
layouton  the   disks   than   to   recreate   all  symlinks  for  a  20,000+   tables/indices database like an SAP R/3
one.


Jan

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