On Wednesday, July 03, 2013 7:41 PM Robert Haas wrote: > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Amit Kapila <amit.kap...@huawei.com> > wrote: > > amit@linux:~> md test > > amit@linux:~> cd test > > amit@linux:~/test> ln -s ~/test link_test > > amit@linux:~/test> ls > > link_test > > amit@linux:~/test> cd link_test > > amit@linux:~/test/link_test> ls > > link_test > > amit@linux:~/test/link_test> cd link_test > > amit@linux:~/test/link_test/link_test> cd link_test > > amit@linux:~/test/link_test/link_test/link_test> pwd > > /home/amit/test/link_test/link_test/link_test > > amit@linux:~/test/link_test/link_test/link_test> > > So what?
It can cause error "too many levels of symbolic links" Point was that in case of symlinks we only want to allow PG_ paths, so that such situation can never occur. However I think this is not important to handle by this utility, so we can remove such handling. With Regards, Amit Kapila. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers