From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: create tablespace fails silently, or succeeds improperly |
Date: | 2010-10-18 18:17:31 |
Message-ID: | 201010181817.o9IIHVb01180@momjian.us |
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Dave Cramer wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com> writes:
> >> as seen below create tablespace does not throw an error or appear to
> >> do anything other than register the tablespace.
> >
> > I suspect this behavior is partially intentional, because tablespace
> > creation now involves an extra level of subdirectory. ?However, it's
> > not clear to me why CREATE TABLESPACE is still changing the permissions
> > on the parent directory. ?Bruce, exactly what is the rationale here?
>
> OK, it appears there are a few loose ends here then as the
> documentation http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/sql-createtablespace.html
> says the directory needs to be empty.
Docs updated to say "should", not "must", be empty. Backpatched to
9.0.X. If we need more change, I can do those too.
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