Re: pg_tablespace_location() failure with allow_in_place_tablespaces

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_tablespace_location() failure with allow_in_place_tablespaces
Date: 2022-03-15 02:55:56
Message-ID: CA+hUKG+LyP3paszHv-a2FCH_fOPgO+eLtahwwrCD0fgkfPqMVA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 2:50 PM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 02:33:17PM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> > As for the complaint about pg_tablespace_location() failing, would it
> > be better to return an empty string? That's what was passed in as
> > LOCATION. Something like the attached.
>
> Hmm, I don't think so. The point of the function is to be able to
> know the location of a tablespace at SQL level so as we don't have any
> need to hardcode its location within any external tests (be it a
> pg_regress test or a TAP test) based on how in-place tablespace paths
> are built in the backend, so I think that we'd better report either a
> relative path from data_directory or an absolute path, but not an
> empty string.
>
> In any case, I'd suggest to add a regression test. What I have sent
> upthread would be portable enough.

Fair enough. No objections here.

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