Re: [HACKERS] pg_basebackup option for handling symlinks

2012-01-20 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 19:52, Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net wrote: On sön, 2012-01-08 at 22:22 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 21:53, Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net wrote: I've recently had a possible need for telling pg_basebackup how to handle symlinks in the

Re: [HACKERS] pg_basebackup option for handling symlinks

2012-01-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On sön, 2012-01-08 at 22:22 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 21:53, Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net wrote: I've recently had a possible need for telling pg_basebackup how to handle symlinks in the remote data directory, instead of ignoring them, which is what currently

[HACKERS] pg_basebackup option for handling symlinks

2012-01-08 Thread Peter Eisentraut
I've recently had a possible need for telling pg_basebackup how to handle symlinks in the remote data directory, instead of ignoring them, which is what currently happens. Possible options were recreating the symlink locally (pointing to a file on the local system) or copying the file the symlink

Re: [HACKERS] pg_basebackup option for handling symlinks

2012-01-08 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 21:53, Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net wrote: I've recently had a possible need for telling pg_basebackup how to handle symlinks in the remote data directory, instead of ignoring them, which is what currently happens.  Possible options were recreating the symlink