Re: tablespaces inside $PGDATA considered harmful

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 01:05:03PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> This way, both pg_dump and pg_upgrade will issue warnings, though, of
> course, those warnings can be ignored. I am hopeful these two warnings
> will be sufficient and we will not need make these errors, with the
> possible inconvenience it will cause. I am still afraid that someone
> will ignore the new errors pg_dump would generate and lose data. I just
> don't remember enough cases where we threw new errors on _data_ restore.
>
> Frankly, those using pg_upgrade already will have to move the old
> tablespaces out of the old cluster if they ever want to delete those
> clusters, so I am hopeful these additional warnings will help eliminate
> this practice, which is already cumbersome and useless. I am not
> planning to revisit this for 9.6.

Patch applied.

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