Re: Open Items

Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> o remove non-portable TABLESPACE clause from CREATE TABLE and
> use a new default_tablespace SET variable

I'm coming around to the conclusion that this is simply a bad idea.

The problem with having such a SET variable is that it plays hob with
the existing definition about where schemas and tables get a default
tablespace from. Which source wins (the database or schema default
tablespace, or the SET variable)? And why? The only really clean way
to have a SET variable for this is to forget about schema- or
table-based defaults. Do we want to do that? (Hey, it'd solve the
problem with schema tablespaces being droppable, because there wouldn't
*be* any such thing as a schema's tablespace anymore. But on the whole
this seems like a step backward in usability.)

What we might want to do is invent a --notablespace option for pg_dump,
comparable to --noowner, to let someone make a dump that contains no
TABLESPACE clauses.

regards, tom lane