TODO item?
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> > The other thing we need are these two commands:
>
> > ALTER DATABASE foo SET TABLESPACE spc;
> > ALTER SCHEMA foo SET TABLESPACE spc;
>
> > I think these should not be considered new features but essential
> > functionality left out of the original patch.
>
> The latter is relatively trivial as long as you interpret it as just
> changing the default TS for tables created later in that schema.
> (On the other hand, you can fake that with a simple UPDATE to
> pg_namespace, so I'm not sure it qualifies as a "must have".)
>
> The former is a real mess since it would require moving some of the
> system catalogs. (At least the nailed-in-cache ones, but I'm not sure
> we've yet determined which ones *have* to be in the database's default
> tablespace.) It'll be fairly entertaining to move pg_class in
> particular, but I doubt you can build such a thing out of the available
> spare parts at all.
>
> My vote would be to postpone any such patch to 7.6 (or 8.1 as the case
> may be), because it's a nontrivial addition of functionality and we had
> no prototype as of July 1.
>
> regards, tom lane
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