On 1/29/14, 12:07 PM, Steeve Lennmark wrote:
> We need to think about how to handle this on platforms without
> symlinks.
> I don't like just printing an error message and moving on. It
> should be
> either pass or fail or an option to choose between them.
>
> I hope someone with experience with those kind of systems can come up
> with suggestions on how to solve that. I only run postgres on Linux.
>
> I would still love some input on this.
Currently, pg_basebackup aborts if it has to create a symlink on a
platform that doesn't support it. So your code that updates the
symlinks would never come into play anyway. I'd just update that code
with a "shouldn't get here" comment and add an exit(1).