On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Thomas Lockhart wrote: > > > I am wondering why we even want to specify the WAL location anywhere > > > except as a flag to initdb. If you specify a location at initdb time, > > > it creates the /xlog directory, then symlinks it into /data. > > Does this have any negative implications for Win32 ports? > > Sure. the symlinks thing was just a suggestion. Everything else is > portable for sure... Or is there some other area you are concerned > about?
NTFS does support symlinks. It's just not very well known, but the gnu utilities for windows can let you create soft links. Scott Marlowe ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
