Re: [GENERAL] pg_upgrade --link on Windows

On Fri, Jun  9, 2017 at 12:00:56PM +0200, Arnaud L. wrote:
> Hi
>
> The pg_upgrade documentation for PostgreSQL 9.6 states that --link will use
> junction points on Windows.
> Shouldn't it rather user hard-links ?
> If I'm not mistaken, with junction points (i.e. soft-links to directories),
> the old data dir cannot be removed.
> With hard-links to file, we can get rid of the old data dir once we are sure
> that the upgrade is fine.

I was told junction points on Windows were hard links and no one has
ever complained about not being able to remove them.

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