Re: [PERFORM] WAL logging of SELECT ... INTO command - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Kris Jurka
Subject Re: [PERFORM] WAL logging of SELECT ... INTO command
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Msg-id Pine.BSO.4.63.0603241308130.14309@leary.csoft.net
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Responses Re: [PERFORM] WAL logging of SELECT ... INTO command  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Jim C. Nasby wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 02:37:28PM -0500, Kris Jurka wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, I saw disk activity on the base directory and assumed it was pg_xlog
>>> stuff. Turns out that both SELECT INTO and CREATE TABLE AS ignore
>>> default_tablepsace and create the new tables in the base directory. I'm
>>> guessing that's a bug... (this is on 8.1.2, btw).
>>
>> This has been fixed in CVS HEAD as part of a patch to allow additional
>> options to CREATE TABLE AS.
>>
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-02/msg00211.php
>
> I'll argue that the current behavior is still a bug and should be fixed.
> Would it be difficult to patch 8.1 (and 8.0 if there were tablespaces
> then...) to honor default_tablespace?

Here are patches that fix this for 8.0 and 8.1.

Kris Jurka

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