Hi,
On 2024-04-23 09:15:27 +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
> I find myself wondering if symlinks should go on the list of "things
> we pretended Windows had out of convenience, that turned out to be
> more inconvenient than we expected, and we'd do better to tackle
> head-on with a more portable idea".
Yes, I think the symlink design was pretty clearly a mistake.
> Perhaps we could just use a tablespace map file instead to do our own path
> construction, or something like that. I suspect that would be one of those
> changes that is technically easy, but community-wise hard as it affects a
> load of backup tools and procedures...)
Yea. I wonder if we could do a somewhat transparent upgrade by creating a file
alongside each tablespace that contains the path or such.
Greetings,
Andres