On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:05, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takah...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Itagaki Takahiro > <itagaki.takah...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Windows 7 supports symbolic links like UNIX, >> but initdb cannot initialize a database cluster >> if the path (-D) contains symlinks. > > The bug might come from the following bug by Microsoft: > http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/595553/stat-function-returns-error-for-directory-symbolic-links > > Note that initdb in 8.4 worked expectedly because it is built with MSVC 2005, > but initdb in 9.0 won't work because built with MSVC 2008 :-( .
Ouch. We could work around it in this place (we could specifically ignore the "file exists" error on the mkdir call), I guess. But how likely is that to bite us elsewhere then? -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
