Re: Win32 link() function

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> AFAIK hard links simply don't exist on Windows.
>
> > Magnus showed me this:
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363860(VS.85).aspx
>
> Hmm, interesting. Are we requiring our DBs to be on NTFS already?

I think we require NTFS with the installers but you can install the
source on anything:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Running_%26_Installing_PostgreSQL_On_Native_Windows#Can_I_install_PostgreSQL_on_a_FAT_partition.3F

For this reason, the PostgreSQL installer package will not initialise a
database cluster on anything but an NTFS partition. The server and
utilities may be installed on any partition type.

> What are the implications for Cygwin?

No idea.

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