Andres Freund wrote:
> On 06/03/2009 06:17 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I think the appropriate question is why doesn't it work on Windows,
>>> and is that fixable? Without having looked, I'm guessing the issue
>>> is that it depends on hardlinks or symlinks --- and we know those are
>>> available, as long as you're using recent Windows with NTFS. Which
>>> does not sound like an unreasonable baseline requirement for someone
>>> committing from Windows.
>> I think it could probably be made to work on WIndows if really necessary
>> (e.g. by translating into perl).
> Is the fact that its implemented as a shell script the real problem?
> Isn't it more that "symlinks" aka Junction Points are really dangerous
> <= WinXP? (Deleting a symlink recurses to the target and deletes there).
>
>
You have carefully left out the first sentence of my reply. Neither of
the committers who actually do much work on Windows (namely Magnus and
me) commit direct from *any* version of Windows. And the whole point of
this was to overcome an issue relating to commits, so it should not
affect anyone except a committer.
And yes, we know about junction points. I don't think either of us is
doing any development work on XP. I do most of my Windows work on my
laptop, which has Vista (and thus mklink as well as junction points).
And yes, the fact that it's a shell script can be a problem if you're
not using a Unix-like shell environment.
cheers
andrew