Re: Win32 link() function

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > > pg_migrator needs hard link() capabiity on Win32 to support its --link
> > > option.  Can someone create that and hopefully add it to libpgport? 
> > 
> > AFAIK hard links simply don't exist on Windows.
> 
> Magnus showed me this:
> 
>     http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363860(VS.85).aspx
> 
>     BOOL WINAPI CreateHardLink(
>       __in        LPCTSTR lpFileName,
>       __in        LPCTSTR lpExistingFileName,
>       __reserved  LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpSecurityAttributes
>     );

Hiroshi Saito emailed me some sample link code I was able to use for
Win32 hard links and I have committed that to pg_migrator CVS.

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