> >> No. We're a very long way away from considering removing the > >> postmaster symlink, so it doesn't matter. > > > Well, per previous discussion, we're removing > postmaster.exe from the > > win32 installer, because it bloats the distribution wihtout > any gain > > (remember - windows doesn't have symlinks, so we need a > complete copy > > of a file that's 4Mb or so). So it would matter there. > > Well, you could copy postgres.exe to postmaster.exe during > install, so I don't think you ever did need to bloat the > distribution, only the install footprint.
Except you're not supposed to do that, because the MSI auto-healing and things like that won't work... > The question here > is whether you're ready to break existing custom scripts for > starting the postmaster. Maybe there are none such in the > wild on Windows, but I'd be hesitant to assume that. We're guessing there aren't - if there are, those are scripts calling the SCM which in turns starts postgresql. So we're doing it now - if it turns up in beta that people were actually using it from elsewhere, we'll jus thave to put it back. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
