> > > Sure, and if the system loading it can not create the
> required symlinks
> > > because the directories don't exist, it can just skip the
> symlink step.
> >
> > What I meant is, would you still be able to create tablespaces on
> > systems without symlinks? That would seem to be a desirable feature.
>
> You could create tablespaces, but you could not point them at
> different
> drives. The issue is that we don't store the symlink location in the
> database, just the tablespace name.
You could point them to another drive if your OS allows you to mount a
filesystem under an arbitrary name, no ?
Andreas