Re: patch : Allow toast tables to be moved to a different tablespace

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Julien Tachoires <julmon(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: patch : Allow toast tables to be moved to a different tablespace
Date: 2011-12-13 17:06:13
Message-ID: CA+TgmoaJOK6yKMZw8sc5HzRD8hb0bzCV0U4JuNc3XdACmfQCYw@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Julien Tachoires <julmon(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Right, it seems to happen when the destination tablespace is the same
> as the database's tbs, because, in this case, relation's tbs is set to
> InvalidOid :
> src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c line 8342
>
> +       rd_rel->reltablespace = (newTableSpace == MyDatabaseTableSpace) ?
> InvalidOid : newTableSpace;
>
> Why don't just asign newTableSpace value here ?

When a relation is stored in the default tablespace, we always record
that in the system catalogs as InvalidOid. Otherwise, if the
database's default tablespace were changed, things would break.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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