On Friday 05 March 2004 07:51, Thomas Swan wrote: > > Apparently, I have failed tremendously in addressing a concern. The > question is does PostgreSQL need to rely on symlinks and will that > dependency introduce problems? > > There is an active win32 port underway (see this mailing list). One > proposal was to try to use an OS specific filesystem feature to perform > a symlink on NTFS. Can the special symlink that NTFS allegedly supports > be archived the same way symlinks are archived on Unix? If so, is there > a utility that can do this (zip, tar, etc).
Why not try and find out? http://www.nedprod.com/programs/Win32/SymLink/ This will apparently create symlinks on NTFS5 volumes via a simple dialogue box. You'd probably want to test using pkzip/winzip, Symantec/Norton - anyone think of any others? -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
