Re: Roadmap for a Win32 port

Jan Wieck wrote:
> > And pg_ctl will be run with a symlink to postmaster like postgres,
> > right? Makes sense.
>
> No symlink. Windows doesn't have symlinks, the "link" stuff you
> see is just some file with a special meaning for the Windows
> explorer. There is absolutely no support built into the OS. They
> really haven't learned alot since the DOS times, when they added
> "." and ".." entries to directories to "look" similar to UNIX.
> Actually, they never really understood what a hardlink is in the
> first place, so why do you expect them to know how to implement
> symbolic ones?
>
> It will be at least another copy of the postmaster (dot exe).

Yea, I just liked the idea of the postmaster binary somehow reporting
the postmaster status. Seems it is in a better position to do that than
a shell script.

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