Sam Carleton <scarleton(at)miltonstreet(dot)com> writes:
> One of the cases I need to be concerned with is the case where the
> application is shut down, the user goes in and deletes the tablespace folder
> by way of deleting the parent folder. How will PostgreSQL handle such a
> situation?
It won't like it. If your users are likely to do such a thing, Postgres
is not the database for you.
regards, tom lane