Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Tablespaces

On Friday 05 March 2004 07:51, Thomas Swan wrote:
>
> Apparently, I have failed tremendously in addressing a concern. The
> question is does PostgreSQL need to rely on symlinks and will that
> dependency introduce problems?
>
> There is an active win32 port underway (see this mailing list).   One
> proposal was to try to use an OS specific filesystem feature to perform
> a symlink on NTFS. Can the special symlink that NTFS allegedly supports
> be archived the same way symlinks are archived on Unix?  If so, is there
> a utility that can do this (zip, tar, etc).

Why not try and find out?
  http://www.nedprod.com/programs/Win32/SymLink/
This will apparently create symlinks on NTFS5 volumes via a simple dialogue
box.

You'd probably want to test using pkzip/winzip, Symantec/Norton - anyone think
of any others?

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd