Re: Using ALTER TABLESPACE in pg_dump

OK, TODO updated:

* Add a GUC variable to control the tablespace for temporary
objects

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Gavin Sherry wrote:
> >> I'm not sure about TOAST however. I considered the idea of adding
> >> something to CREATE TABLE like TOASTSPACE <tablespace>, such that all
> >> TOAST tables would be put in the 'toastspace'. But I think the syntax is
> >> ugly and would confuse many users who do not know what toast is.
>
> > I think we need to add temp_tablespace and toast_tablespace GUC
> > variables to deal with this, perhaps for 8.1.
>
> A tablespace for temp tables is okay, but I'm fairly dubious about the
> idea of a "toast tablespace". The current behavior is that a toast
> table is automatically placed into the same tablespace as its parent,
> and that seems exactly right to me. It's certainly the right thing from
> the point of view of users who do not understand TOAST and expect all of
> a table's data to get put where they said to put the table.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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