Re: [HACKERS] win32 tablespace handing

Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32,gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Reini Urban wrote:
> Bruce Momjian schrieb:
> > Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >>Reini Urban said:
> >>>Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD schrieb:
> >>>>>>hardlinks and junctions don't work across physical disks, only
> >>>>>>symlinks.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Where did you read this?  I just looked and can see no such
> >>>>>restriction.
> >>>>
> >>>>There is no such restriction for junctions, I just tried it to be
> >>>>safe.
> >>>
> >>>Yes, sorry. I had old NTFS4 information.
> >>>NTFS5 supports volume mount points now too.
> >>>
> >>>But shouldn't we check in configure :) for this filesystem then?
> >>>(Ha! ntfs5.m4 for MSVC folks)
> >>
> >>No, of course not. That would only check the machine where you compile, not
> >>where you install/run.
> > 
> > Tablespaces are not supported on NT4. They throw an error.
> 
> So just describe in the docs that only NTFS5 (i.e. W2K and up) supports 
> th new tablespace feature.
> I could find my cygwin niche then to support it by our native and slow 
> symlink implementation :)

I think we are fine.  We have already discussed not even supporting NT4
because tablespaces don't work, but now it will throw a not supported
error, which seems fine.

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