> First of all, symlinks are a pretty popular "feature." Even Windows
> supports what would be needed. Second of all, PostgreSQL will still
> run on OSes without symlinks, tablespaces won't be available, but
> PostgreSQL will still run. Since we are all using PostgreSQL without
My idea for platforms that don't support symlinks would be to simply create
a tblspaceoid directory inplace instead of the symlink (maybe throw a warning).
My feeling is, that using the same syntax on such platforms is important,
but actual distribution is not (since they will most likely be small systems).
Andreas