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Re: [DOCS] pg_upgrade --link on Windows

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On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 04:07:48PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Fri, Jun  9, 2017 at 07:55:55AM -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> I apologize for not being smarter on this thread.  When I helped with
> the Windows port, I was told Windows didn't have hard links for use by
> tablespace directories, so I got it into my head that Windows didn't
> have hard links.  Therefore, when I was writing the docs, I called them
> junction points.
> 
> Looking back to Postgres 9.0 where pg_upgrade was added to the tree, I
> see that the code even at that time used hard links on Windows.  I have
> created the attached patch which I will apply to all current Postgres
> versions to fix this error.
> 
> Thanks for the report and the research.  :-)

Patch applied all the way back to 9.3, where the junction point mention
first appeared.

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