Re: [PATCH] Relocation of tablespaces in pg_basebackup - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andreas Karlsson
Subject Re: [PATCH] Relocation of tablespaces in pg_basebackup
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Msg-id 52CEE762.7080509@proxel.se
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In response to [PATCH] Relocation of tablespaces in pg_basebackup  (Steeve Lennmark <steevel@handeldsbanken.se>)
Responses Re: [PATCH] Relocation of tablespaces in pg_basebackup  (Steeve Lennmark <steevel@handeldsbanken.se>)
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On 01/09/2014 06:58 PM, Steeve Lennmark wrote: > This patch adds the ability to relocate tablespaces by adding the
> command line argument --tablespace (-T) which takes a required argument
> in the format "oid:tablespacedir". After all tablespaces are fetched
> this code updates the symlink to point to the new tablespace location.
>
> I would have loved to be able to pass tablespacename:tablespacedir
> though, but sadly I wasn't able to figure out how to retrieve that
> information without creating another connection to the database.

This feature would be a nice addition to pg_basebackup, and I agree with 
that it would be preferable to use names of oids if possible.

> This feature might be missing because of some other limitation I fail
> to see, if so let me know. Please be gentle, this is my first patch ;-)

It seems like you have attached the wrong patch. The only attachment I 
see is 0001-SQL-assertions-prototype.patch.

Best regards,
Andreas

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Andreas Karlsson



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