Re: Native partitioning tablespace inheritance

> On Apr 12, 2018, at 2:36 PM, Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com> wrote:
>
>
>> On Apr 12, 2018, at 09:17, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Hmm, that's interesting. So you want the children to inherit the
>> parent's tablespace when they are created, but if the parent's
>> tablespace is later changed, the existing children don't move?
>
> +1 to that behavior.
>
> While it's always possible to just say "do the right thing" to the application when creating new children (that is, expect that they will always specify a tablespace if it's not the default), this seems like the least-surprising behavior.
>
> It's true that an unpartitioned table will always be created in the default tablespace unless otherwise specified, but child tables are sufficiently distinct from that case that I don't see it as a painful asymmetry.

If there are no strong objections I am going to add this to the “Older Bugs”
section of Open Items in a little bit.

Jonathan