Re: BUG #18167: cannot create partitioned tables when default_tablespace is set

On 2023-Oct-24, PG Bug reporting form wrote:

> marius(at)[local]:5434/postgres=# show default_tablespace;
> default_tablespace
> --------------------
> tblspc1
> (1 row)
>
> marius(at)[local]:5434/postgres=# create tablespace tblspc1 location
> '/home/marius/pgcode/tblspc1';
> CREATE TABLESPACE
> marius(at)[local]:5434/postgres=# create database test tablespace tblspc1;
> CREATE DATABASE
> marius(at)[local]:5434/postgres=# \c test
> You are now connected to database "test" as user "marius".
> marius(at)[local]:5434/test=# create table toto(id numeric) partition by
> list(id);
> ERROR: cannot specify default tablespace for partitioned relations

Oh, so the problem here is that *both* default_tablespace and the
database's tablespace are set, and then a partitioned table creation
fails when it doesn't specify any tablespace? That indeed sounds like a
bug. I'll have a look, thanks. I'm surprised it took so long for this
to be reported.

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