On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 16:34, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: >>> I'm working on completing Heikki's patch for streaming base backups, >>> and have run into a problem: >>> >>> In order to dump all tablespaces properly, I have to know where they >>> are (d'uh). >> >> Can you get that directly from the filesystem layout? > > Hmm. I guess we could enumerate the pg_tblspc directory, and call > readlink() on all the symlinks in there. Assuming all platforms can do > readlink() (we'd obviously need a special windows implementation, but > that's doable I guess). > > I just figured it'd be a lot cleaner to read it from our own catalogs...
I don't even see why you'd need readlink. Can't you just traverse the symlinks? -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
