Re: Updated ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE patch - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Updated ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE patch
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Msg-id 200407120132.i6C1Wv915587@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Updated ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE patch  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > Please remove that; if I thought either one was a good idea, I would
> > have allowed it in the committed patch.
> >
> > 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...

True, that does seem unusual.

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