> >> No. We're a very long way away from considering removing the
> >> postmaster symlink, so it doesn't matter.
>
> > Well, per previous discussion, we're removing
> postmaster.exe from the
> > win32 installer, because it bloats the distribution wihtout
> any gain
> > (remember - windows doesn't have symlinks, so we need a
> complete copy
> > of a file that's 4Mb or so). So it would matter there.
>
> Well, you could copy postgres.exe to postmaster.exe during
> install, so I don't think you ever did need to bloat the
> distribution, only the install footprint.
Except you're not supposed to do that, because the MSI auto-healing and
things like that won't work...
> The question here
> is whether you're ready to break existing custom scripts for
> starting the postmaster. Maybe there are none such in the
> wild on Windows, but I'd be hesitant to assume that.
We're guessing there aren't - if there are, those are scripts calling
the SCM which in turns starts postgresql. So we're doing it now - if it
turns up in beta that people were actually using it from elsewhere,
we'll jus thave to put it back.
//Magnus