Re: Resurrecting pg_upgrade

Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:

>On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 14:51, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>re Windows: pipes, yes, hard links, no (and no sane symlinks either) 
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>Actually, NTFS does support hard links, there is just no support for it
>in any MS file management GUI.
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>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnfiles/html/ntfs5.asp
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I learn something new every day! :-)

I guess we *are* specifying that only NTFS will be supported on Windows? 
(I saw someone the other day running XP on FAT - I couldn't believe it!)

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>>Maybe use an option which you would disable on Windows to copy the files 
>>instead of hardlinking them. Yes it would take lots more time and space, 
>>but copying raw files would surely still be a lot faster than loading 
>>the dump.
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>I think this would be a good feature even without hard link problems. 
>If I am a paranoid admin, and I can afford the time and disk space
>required, I would want to keep a complete copy of my database, even
>after the new server is up and running.
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I agree. A little paranoia never hurt anyone. Of course, you could 
always back it up manually beforehand too.

cheers

andrew