Re: Big 7.1 open items

> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > The symlink solution where the actual symlink location is not stored
> > in the database is certainly abstract.  We store that info in the file
> > system, which is where it belongs.  We only query the symlink location
> > when we need it for database location dumping.
> 
> how would that work? would pg_dump dump the tablespace locations or not?
> 

pg_dump would recreate a CREATE TABLESPACE command:
printf("CREATE TABLESPACE %s USING %s", loc, symloc);

where symloc would be SELECT symloc(loc) and return the value into a
variable that is used by pg_dump.  The backend would do the lstat() and
return the value to the client.

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