> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>
> I apologize for not being smarter on this thread. When I helped with the
> Windows port, I was told Windows didn't have hard links for use by
tablespace
> directories, so I got it into my head that Windows didn't have hard links.
> Therefore, when I was writing the docs, I called them junction points.
It's actually not "Windows" providing hard links, it is the file system
NTFS. FAT and its modern cousins don't provide hard links - but this will
rarely be used for databases these days.
However, ReFS (introduced with server 2012 and providing some new features
like automatic integrity checks, clustering etc.) does no longer provide
hard links.
Are hard links used anywhere else but in pg_upgrade?
Klaus