Don Baccus wrote:
> At 11:46 AM 6/16/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> I personally dislike depending on symlinks to move stuff around.
> Among other things, a pg_dump/restore (and presumably future
> backup tools?) can't recreate the disk layout automatically.
>
Most impact from this one, IMHO.
Not that Oracle tools are able to do it either. But I think it's more trivial to recreate a 30+ tablespace
layouton the disks than to recreate all symlinks for a 20,000+ tables/indices database like an SAP R/3
one.
Jan
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