| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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| To: | Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alexander Lakhin <exclusion(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: fix tablespace handling in pg_combinebackup |
| Date: | 2024-04-22 21:23:52 |
| Message-ID: | 20240422212352.ol7w24pjtyjypjok@awork3.anarazel.de |
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Hi,
On 2024-04-23 09:15:27 +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
> I find myself wondering if symlinks should go on the list of "things
> we pretended Windows had out of convenience, that turned out to be
> more inconvenient than we expected, and we'd do better to tackle
> head-on with a more portable idea".
Yes, I think the symlink design was pretty clearly a mistake.
> Perhaps we could just use a tablespace map file instead to do our own path
> construction, or something like that. I suspect that would be one of those
> changes that is technically easy, but community-wise hard as it affects a
> load of backup tools and procedures...)
Yea. I wonder if we could do a somewhat transparent upgrade by creating a file
alongside each tablespace that contains the path or such.
Greetings,
Andres
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