Re: Upgrading a database dump/restore

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, "Benny Amorsen" <benny+usenet(at)amorsen(dot)dk>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Upgrading a database dump/restore
Date: 2006-10-10 12:23:26
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA357C4@algol.sollentuna.se
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> > TL> (I suppose it wouldn't work in Windows for lack of hard
> links, but
> > TL> anyone trying to run a terabyte database on Windows deserves
> to
> > TL> lose anyway.)
> >
> > Windows has hard links on NTFS, they are just rarely used.
>
> We use them in PostgreSQL to support tablespaces.

No, we don't. We use NTFS Junctions which are the equivalent of
directory *symlinks*. Not hardlinks. Different thing.

//Magnus

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