| From: | "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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| To: | "Andreas Pflug" <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "PostgreSQL Patches" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Win32 tablespace |
| Date: | 2004-08-06 07:50:53 |
| Message-ID: | E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E41A7614@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk |
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-patches-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-patches-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Andreas Pflug
> Sent: 05 August 2004 20:23
> To: Bruce Momjian
> Cc: PostgreSQL Patches
> Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Win32 tablespace
>
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Andreas Pflug wrote:
> >
> >>The attached patch implements a symlink for win32 using
> junctions, and
> >>uses that for win32 tablespaces.
> >
> >
> > Wow, that's, uh, amazing!
>
> http://www.codeproject.com/w2k/junctionpoints.asp has a good
> description of the obfuscated REPARSE_DATA_BUFFER which is
> included in my vc6 installation, but not sufficiently documented.
I concur with Bruce - nice work. This is obviously win2k+ only though -
until now we've tried to support NT4 as well, although it seems that we
can't get initdb to work as we'd like in the installer on that platform.
Should we officially support 2K+ only?
Regards, Dave.
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