Re: open item: tablespace handing in pg_dump/pg_restore

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Reini Urban wrote:

> Gavin Sherry schrieb:
> > On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Reini Urban wrote:
> >>>I cannot recreate on Linux. What platform, etc, are you on?
> >>
> >>hmm, I'll investigate then.
> >>
> >>postgresql latest CVS with 2 minor shlib building patches left
> >>   (added -lpgport)
> >>cygwin-1.5.11
> >>gcc-3.4.1
> >
> > Hmm.. sounds like we're trying to support tablespaces on a system which
> > doesn't actually support symlinks (in the way we need them). Can any of
> > the windows guys help?
>
> Found the error:
> gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
> -Wmissing-declarations -I../../../src/include -DBUILDING_DLL  -c -o
> tablespace.o tablespace.c
>
> no HAVE_SYMLINK defined, though CYGWIN should added -DHAVE_SYMLINK.
>
> /usr/src/postgresql/postgresql-8.0.0cvs/src/backend/commands
> $ gcc -E -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
> -Wmissing-declarations -I../../../src/include  -DBUILDING_DLL  -c
> tablespace.c | grep HAVE_SYMLINK
>
> <none>

Does it pass the regression tests when you define HAVE_SYMLINK ?

Gavin