Re: Alternative database locations are broken

On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 12:13:31PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu> writes:
> > Hmm, I know NT's not really a target, supported OS, but enshrining
> > symlinks in a the design of a backend feature makes it really difficult
> > to keep even the semblance of support.
>
> As long as we don't require symlinks to exist for standard setups,
> I have no trouble at all with decreeing that alternate database
> locations won't work on NT.

Just tested 'ln -s' under Cygwin bash, and at least less and cat follow
the link, notepad.exe and wordpad.exe open the link file. Checking the
Cygwin FAQ, I see that this was a red herring: postgres, being a cygwin
app, should follow symlinks just fine.

Ross
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