Re: pg_tablespace_location() error message - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: pg_tablespace_location() error message
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Msg-id CA+TgmoaA4Q-8zVx74kU9-mZ=d=oz1n50_XrXR8n+UGvaFBWT+g@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: pg_tablespace_location() error message  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: pg_tablespace_location() error message
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> If we expect this function to mainly be applied to pg_class.reltablespace,
> then it seems like it ought to understand that zero means "the database
> default" and substitute the database's default tablespace.  That might
> or might not be the same as the cluster default.
>
> Alternatively, we could expect pg_upgrade to understand that and make
> the substitution itself, but if the same would be needed by most uses of
> the function, maybe we should just do it here.

+1 for doing it in the function.  I think that will improve
ease-of-use and give up nothing.

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Robert Haas
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


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