Re: [PATCHES] Tablespace patch review

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Tablespace patch review
Date: 2004-06-19 19:08:41
Message-ID: 18101.1087672121@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> By the way, I think that we should deny users the ability to create
> tablespaces that begin with pg_. Also, the existing ones should be
> pg_global and pg_default. That way, we have room to move if ever we
> decide we want more system tablespaces. It also makes it easier to dump
> non-system tablespaces.

Seems like a reasonable suggestion to me. Any objections?

BTW, another argument for this is that "default" is a reserved word.
I'd already noticed in testing that CREATE TABLE ... TABLESPACE default
doesn't work unless you double-quote "default". Calling it pg_default
would avoid that annoyance.

regards, tom lane

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