Re: Win32 link() function

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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.

Oh, yea, we only support tablespaces on Win32 using NTFS.

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