On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 16:40, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 16:34, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> >>> wrote: >>>> I'm working on completing Heikki's patch for streaming base backups, >>>> and have run into a problem: >>>> >>>> In order to dump all tablespaces properly, I have to know where they >>>> are (d'uh). >>> >>> Can you get that directly from the filesystem layout? >> >> Hmm. I guess we could enumerate the pg_tblspc directory, and call >> readlink() on all the symlinks in there. Assuming all platforms can do >> readlink() (we'd obviously need a special windows implementation, but >> that's doable I guess). >> >> I just figured it'd be a lot cleaner to read it from our own catalogs... > > I don't even see why you'd need readlink. Can't you just traverse the > symlinks?
Well, they need to be put back in the same location on the other machine (slave in case of replication, tarball otherwise). If I just traverse the symlinks, they'll just appears as a subdirectory of pg_tblspc on the other machine, won't they? -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
