Re: Updated ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE patch

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Updated ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE patch
Date: 2004-07-12 01:56:31
Message-ID: 3322.1089597391@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>> Sequences are too small to be worth moving around, and may someday be
>> reimplemented in a fashion that doesn't use up a separate disk file for
>> each one. If we allow SET TABLESPACE on them we will be limiting our
>> future flexibility for no useful gain.

> Why do we allow them to be created in tablespaces in the first place
> then? Seems like a bit of a misfeature? I mean we don't allow views in
> tablespaces...

I had forgotten that the original patch allowed that. Personally I'd
vote for taking it out, for the above-stated reasons --- any objections?

If people do want to have it then we can instead change ALTER SET
TABLESPACE to allow sequences; but we'd also need a nontrivial addition
to pg_dump, so there had better be a better reason than "might be nice
to have".

regards, tom lane

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