Re: Can you specify the pg_xlog location from a config file?

The Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit and WinXP Resource Kit (both free
to download) both also provide the LINKD utility -- we use LINKD to
create junctions on most of our Windows servers (to mimic the equivalent
hard links we use on our Linux servers).

- Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Haile
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 1:44 PM
> To: Roman Neuhauser; Karen Hill
> Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Can you specify the pg_xlog location
> from a config file?
>
>
> This utility is useful for creating junctions in Windows:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Junc
tion.mspx

I am using this to "symlink" my pg_xlog directory to another disk and it
works great.

Jeremy Haile

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:27:04 +0000, "Roman Neuhauser"
<neuhauser(at)sigpipe(dot)cz> said:
> # karen_hill22(at)yahoo(dot)com / 2007-01-26 09:21:27 -0800:
> > Windows doesn't support symlinks. Is it possible instead for there
> > to be a config file that lets one set where the pg_xlog directory
> > will sit?
>
> Windows has junction points.
>
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