RE: Big 7.1 open items

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]
> 
> The fact is that symlink information is already stored in the file
> system.  If we store symlink information in the database too, there
> exists the ability for the two to get out of sync.  My point is that I
> think we can _not_ store symlink information in the database, and query
> the file system using lstat when required.
>

Hmm,this seems pretty confusing to me.
I don't understand the necessity of symlink.
Directory tree,symlink,hard link ... are OS's standard.
But I don't think they are fit for dbms management.

PostgreSQL is a database system of cource. So
couldn't it handle more flexible structure than OS's
directory tree for itself ?

Regards.

Hiroshi Inoue
Inoue@tpf.co.jp