On 11/13/14 4:33 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Is this still relevant after this commit?
>> >
>> > commit fb05f3ce83d225dd0f39f8860ce04082753e9e98
>> > Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
>> > Date: Sat Feb 22 13:38:06 2014 -0500
>> >
>> > pg_basebackup: Add support for relocating tablespaces
> I believe so.
>
> The commit only applies to "plain" output. Amit's complaint is that tar
> utilities on Windows don't unpack symlinks, so the "tar" format isn't
> useful on Windows when tablespaces are used. So he wants the recovery
> mechanism to restore the symlinks.
Um, wouldn't accepting this patch break the above-mentioned
tablespace-relocation feature, because pg_basebackup wouldn't see any
more symlinks sent down?