On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> > > I am wondering why we even want to specify the WAL location anywhere
> > > except as a flag to initdb. If you specify a location at initdb time,
> > > it creates the /xlog directory, then symlinks it into /data.
> > Does this have any negative implications for Win32 ports?
>
> Sure. the symlinks thing was just a suggestion. Everything else is
> portable for sure... Or is there some other area you are concerned
> about?
NTFS does support symlinks. It's just not very well known, but the gnu
utilities for windows can let you create soft links.
Scott Marlowe