Re: 8.0 beta status

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 8.0 beta status
Date: 2004-08-13 04:03:55
Message-ID: 200408130403.i7D43tv13820@candle.pha.pa.us
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Where are we on this?

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> >> Yeah, those are all bug fixes and okay for post-beta I think. But which
> >> two tablespace failures are you thinking of exactly? The last couple
> >> weeks have been a bit of a blur for me...
>
> > http://groups.google.com.au/groups?q=tablespaces+group:comp.databases.postgresql.hackers&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=comp.databases.postgresql.hackers&scoring=d&selm=Pine.LNX.4.58.0407281411470.17889%40linuxworld.com.au&rnum=4
>
> Okay, this is a the-error-message-could-be-better gripe. Fair enough,
> but it's not top of my priority list ...
>
> > http://groups.google.com.au/groups?q=tablespaces+group:comp.databases.postgresql.hackers&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=comp.databases.postgresql.hackers&scoring=d&selm=4107211C.2050508%40familyhealth.com.au&rnum=5
>
> I think the problem here is that we don't have a syntax for saying
> "my tablespace is the same as my database's default tablespace" or "my
> tablespace is the same as my schema's default tablespace", when there is
> an intermediate object (schema or table) that isn't using that
> tablespace. (Note that "TABLESPACE pg_default" does definitely not mean
> either of these.)
>
> This is fixable with some special syntax but is it worth the trouble?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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