| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pg_backup symlink? |
| Date: | 2000-07-10 23:39:28 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.21.0007102039040.3314-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Philip Warner wrote:
> At 18:58 10/07/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> >There are dozens of other examples in any standard Unix system. Just
> >to take one example, 'ls' has six different links to it on my Unix box,
> >and they all act differently (ie, supply different default switches to
> >the basic 'ls' behavior).
> >
> >Peter is definitely swimming upstream if he hopes to get anyone to adopt
> >the above as received wisdom.
> >
>
> Does this mean that using a pg_backup symlink would be deemed acceptable?
yes :)
both 'commands' should be documented in the man pages too ... right? :)
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