Hi, On 2024-04-23 09:15:27 +1200, Thomas Munro wrote: > I find myself wondering if symlinks should go on the list of "things > we pretended Windows had out of convenience, that turned out to be > more inconvenient than we expected, and we'd do better to tackle > head-on with a more portable idea".
Yes, I think the symlink design was pretty clearly a mistake. > Perhaps we could just use a tablespace map file instead to do our own path > construction, or something like that. I suspect that would be one of those > changes that is technically easy, but community-wise hard as it affects a > load of backup tools and procedures...) Yea. I wonder if we could do a somewhat transparent upgrade by creating a file alongside each tablespace that contains the path or such. Greetings, Andres
