Re: pg_ls_tmpdir to show directories and shared filesets (and pg_ls_*)

On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 08:23:54PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 03:17:35PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> > FWIW, per my review the bit of the patch set that I found the most
> > relevant is the addition of a note in the docs of pg_stat_file() about
> > the case where "filename" is a link, because the code internally uses
> > stat().   The function name makes that obvious, but that's not
> > commonly known, I guess.  Please see the attached, that I would be
> > fine to apply.
> 
> Hmm.  I am having second thoughts on this one, as on Windows we rely
> on GetFileInformationByHandle() for the emulation of stat() in
> win32stat.c, and it looks like this returns some information about the
> junction point and not the directory or file this is pointing to, it
> seems.

Where did you find that ?  What metadata does it return about the junction
point ?  We only care about a handful of fields.