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CREATE TABLE AS and tablespaces

From
Markus Schaber
Date:
Hello,

Recently, I wanted to create a table from a complex query in a specific
tablespace, but CREATE TABLE name AS SELECT ... does not accept a
tablespace argument.

I worked around it by CREATE TABLE name AS SELECT ... LIMIT 0, then
moving the generated table to the other tablespace using ALTER TABLE,
and then using INSERT INTO ... SELECT to generate the data into the table.

But nevertheless, I'd like to ask here whether there are specific
reasons for omitting the tablespace argument from the CREATE TABLE AS
statement. If not, I'd like to request this minor feature :-)

Maybe it is even possible to further unify CREATE TABLE and CREATE TABLE AS.

Thanks,
Schabi
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Re: CREATE TABLE AS and tablespaces

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
Markus Schaber wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Recently, I wanted to create a table from a complex query in a specific
> tablespace, but CREATE TABLE name AS SELECT ... does not accept a
> tablespace argument.
> 
> I worked around it by CREATE TABLE name AS SELECT ... LIMIT 0, then
> moving the generated table to the other tablespace using ALTER TABLE,
> and then using INSERT INTO ... SELECT to generate the data into the table.
> 
> But nevertheless, I'd like to ask here whether there are specific
> reasons for omitting the tablespace argument from the CREATE TABLE AS
> statement. If not, I'd like to request this minor feature :-)
> 
> Maybe it is even possible to further unify CREATE TABLE and CREATE TABLE AS.

This feature will be in 8.2:revision 2.530date: 2006/02/19 00:04:27;  author: neilc;  state: Exp;  lines: +16 -20Add
TABLESPACEand ON COMMIT clauses to CREATE TABLE AS. ON COMMIT isrequired by the SQL standard, and TABLESPACE is useful
functionality.Patchfrom Kris Jurka, minor editorialization by Neil Conway.
 


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