Re: pg_tables bug?

Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I'm playing around with tablespace (postgresq 9.4) and I found out what I
> believe is a bug in pg_tables.
> Basically if you create a database in a table space X and then you create a
> table on the database the table is created correctly on the tablespace X (
> I did a check on the filesystem) however if you do a select on pg_tables
> the column tablespace for that table is empty and even worst if you dump
> the DB there is no reporting about the the database or table being on that
> tablespace.
> Even \d doesn't report that the table is in the tablespace X.

An empty entry in that column means that the table is in the default
tablespace for the database. Which it sounds like is what you have
here. I think it's operating as designed, though you might quibble
with the decision that showing default tablespaces explicitly would
have been clutter.

regards, tom lane