Re: Big 7.1 open items

> At 01:43 PM 6/22/00 +1000, Chris Bitmead wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> So you don't dump your create tablespace statements, recognizing that on
> a new machine (due to upgrades or crashing) you might assign them to
> different directories/mount points/whatever. That's the reason for
> wanting to hide physical allocation in tablespaces ... the rest of
> your datamodel doesn't need to know.
>
> Or you do dump your tablespaces, and knowing the paths assigned
> to various ones set up your new machine accordingly.

I imagine we will have a -l flag to pg_dump to dump tablespace
locations. If they exist on the new machine, we use them. If not, we
create just directories with no symlinks.

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