On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 10:11:52PM +0900, Hiroshi Saito wrote: > Hi. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Junctions only work for directories, not for files. > > > >In theory, you should be able to use mklink to create a hardlink on > >previous versions of Windows, but I'm not sure if it'll work. But we want > >symlinks here, not hardlinks, and they are simply not supported on earlier > >versions of Windows. > > > >It is alerady documented that it doesn't work on Windows prior to Vista. I > >think this is fine. What we could add is a specific version check to > >pg_standby to have it emit a "not supported on this windows version" error > >if it's not supported. But I think that's overkill - it will still fail, > >and it's well documented that it's not *supposed* to work. > > Yeah, vote +1:-) > Probably, the equipment which is not Symbolic Link is needed in order > to correspond to XP and 2K. It is hard to use rather than 'SymbolicLink'. > It will be enough if notice are written to a document.
The notice is *alraedy* in the documentation. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/pgstandby.html has: "-l will not work on versions of Windows prior to Vista." //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
