Re: Big 7.1 open items

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Chris Bitmead <chrisb(at)nimrod(dot)itg(dot)telstra(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Big 7.1 open items
Date: 2000-06-22 04:03:27
Message-ID: 200006220403.AAA15648@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > where symloc would be SELECT symloc(loc) and return the value into a
> > variable that is used by pg_dump. The backend would do the lstat() and
> > return the value to the client.
>
> I'm wondering if pg_dump should store the location of the tablespace. If
> your machine dies, you get a new machine to re-create the database, you
> may not want the tablespace in the same spot. And text-editing a
> gigabyte file would be extremely painful.

If the symlink create fails in CREATE TABLESPACE, it just creates an
ordinary directory.

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