Re: Win32 link() function

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > > pg_migrator needs hard link() capabiity on Win32 to support its --link
> > > option. Can someone create that and hopefully add it to libpgport?
> >
> > AFAIK hard links simply don't exist on Windows.
>
> Magnus showed me this:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363860(VS.85).aspx
>
> BOOL WINAPI CreateHardLink(
> __in LPCTSTR lpFileName,
> __in LPCTSTR lpExistingFileName,
> __reserved LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpSecurityAttributes
> );

Hiroshi Saito emailed me some sample link code I was able to use for
Win32 hard links and I have committed that to pg_migrator CVS.

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