Re: Win32 link() function

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > > Tom Lane wrote:
> > >> (Come to think of it, --link can fail on Unix too, if the user tries to
> > >> put the new database on a different filesystem. Have you got guards in
> > >> there to make sure this is discovered before the point of no return?)
> >
> > > Of course:
> > > ...
> > > though you have to delete the new cluster directory and remove the _old
> > > suffixes to get your old cluster back.
> >
> > That wasn't what I had in mind by "before the point of no return".
> > You should be making some effort to detect obvious failure cases
> > *before* the user has to do a lot of error-prone manual cleanup.
>
> That is something I will address during beta as I get problem reports.

I have added that as a TODO.

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