> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: 10 October 2006 13:23
> To: Dave Page; Benny Amorsen; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Upgrading a database dump/restore
> 
> > > TL> (I suppose it wouldn't work in Windows for lack of hard
> > links, but
> > > TL> anyone trying to run a terabyte database on Windows deserves
> > to
> > > TL> lose anyway.)
> > >
> > > Windows has hard links on NTFS, they are just rarely used.
> > 
> > We use them in PostgreSQL to support tablespaces.
> 
> No, we don't. We use NTFS Junctions which are the equivalent of
> directory *symlinks*. Not hardlinks. Different thing.

They are? Oh well, you live and learn :-)

/D

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