Re: Disable alternate locations on Win32

Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Why not do it with one ifdef in one place?

> I checked this again and the test is at the top, while the symlink()
> call is at the bottom after the database has already been copied. I
> think we do need to error out before we start copying the database.

Huh? We haven't copied anything at that point. We have done the
mkdir() though. On spec-compliant platforms it'd be possible to
switch the order of these operations, so that the symlink comes before
mkdir. Does anyone know of a platform on which symlink() fails if the
referenced pathname doesn't exist yet?

regards, tom lane