Re: ALTER xx SET TABLESPACE (was bug in DROP TABLESPACE)

From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ALTER xx SET TABLESPACE (was bug in DROP TABLESPACE)
Date: 2004-07-07 07:46:45
Message-ID: 40EBAA65.9040209@pse-consulting.de
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

>> Its questionable if these are to be interpreted as just changing the
>> default tablespace for subsequent creates, or also moving all objects
>> that were created using the previous tablespace. Since it's
>> indistinguishable whether an object was created using the default
>> from schema/database or given a tablespace explicitely (unless
>> default was 0), I'd opt for version one.
>
>
> I meant option one - I hadn't considered the second. The thing is
> though you have to maybe move some stuff on disk as well.

Currently not in case of schema (until we have a placeholder file); for
database, certainly the directory structure needs to be created and the
old removed if empty. AFAICS no move of data is necessary.

Regards,
Andreas

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