Re: [PERFORM] WAL logging of SELECT ... INTO command

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>
Cc: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] WAL logging of SELECT ... INTO command
Date: 2006-04-26 23:02:34
Message-ID: 200604262302.k3QN2YW23329@candle.pha.pa.us
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Backpatched to 8.0.X and 8.1.X.

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Kris Jurka wrote:
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>
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
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> > On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 02:37:28PM -0500, Kris Jurka wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> >>
> >>> Ok, I saw disk activity on the base directory and assumed it was pg_xlog
> >>> stuff. Turns out that both SELECT INTO and CREATE TABLE AS ignore
> >>> default_tablepsace and create the new tables in the base directory. I'm
> >>> guessing that's a bug... (this is on 8.1.2, btw).
> >>
> >> This has been fixed in CVS HEAD as part of a patch to allow additional
> >> options to CREATE TABLE AS.
> >>
> >> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-02/msg00211.php
> >
> > I'll argue that the current behavior is still a bug and should be fixed.
> > Would it be difficult to patch 8.1 (and 8.0 if there were tablespaces
> > then...) to honor default_tablespace?
>
> Here are patches that fix this for 8.0 and 8.1.
>
> Kris Jurka

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