Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] win32 tablespace handing

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Reini Urban said:
> > Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD schrieb:
> >>>>hardlinks and junctions don't work across physical disks, only
> >>>>symlinks.
> >>>Where did you read this?  I just looked and can see no such
> >>>restriction.
> >>
> >> There is no such restriction for junctions, I just tried it to be
> >> safe.
> >
> > Yes, sorry. I had old NTFS4 information.
> > NTFS5 supports volume mount points now too.
> >
> > But shouldn't we check in configure :) for this filesystem then?
> > (Ha! ntfs5.m4 for MSVC folks)
>
> No, of course not. That would only check the machine where you compile, not
> where you install/run.

Tablespaces are not supported on NT4. They throw an error.

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