| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Arnaud L(dot)" <arnaud(dot)listes(at)codata(dot)eu> |
| Cc: | PG-General Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_upgrade --link on Windows |
| Date: | 2017-06-09 14:07:24 |
| Message-ID: | 20170609140724.GB21215@momjian.us |
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On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 12:00:56PM +0200, Arnaud L. wrote:
> Hi
>
> The pg_upgrade documentation for PostgreSQL 9.6 states that --link will use
> junction points on Windows.
> Shouldn't it rather user hard-links ?
> If I'm not mistaken, with junction points (i.e. soft-links to directories),
> the old data dir cannot be removed.
> With hard-links to file, we can get rid of the old data dir once we are sure
> that the upgrade is fine.
I was told junction points on Windows were hard links and no one has
ever complained about not being able to remove them.
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