On 2012-12-01 14:45, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Someone just reported a problem when they had created a new tablespace
> inside the old data directory. I'm sure there can be other issues
> caused by this as well, but this is mainly a confusing scenario for
> people now.
>
> As there isn't (as far as I know at least) any actual *point* in
> creating a tablespace inside the main data directory, should we
> perhaps disallow this in CREATE TABLESPACE? Or at least throw a
> WARNING if one does it?
Does this apply when creating a tablespace in another tablespace too? If
the problem is that pg_basebackup copies that data twice it sounds like
it should.
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Andreas Karlsson
