Re: [PERFORM] WAL logging of SELECT ... INTO command

From: Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>
To: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] WAL logging of SELECT ... INTO command
Date: 2006-03-24 18:09:26
Message-ID: Pine.BSO.4.63.0603241308130.14309@leary.csoft.net
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Jim C. Nasby wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 02:37:28PM -0500, Kris Jurka wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, I saw disk activity on the base directory and assumed it was pg_xlog
>>> stuff. Turns out that both SELECT INTO and CREATE TABLE AS ignore
>>> default_tablepsace and create the new tables in the base directory. I'm
>>> guessing that's a bug... (this is on 8.1.2, btw).
>>
>> This has been fixed in CVS HEAD as part of a patch to allow additional
>> options to CREATE TABLE AS.
>>
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-02/msg00211.php
>
> I'll argue that the current behavior is still a bug and should be fixed.
> Would it be difficult to patch 8.1 (and 8.0 if there were tablespaces
> then...) to honor default_tablespace?

Here are patches that fix this for 8.0 and 8.1.

Kris Jurka

Attachment Content-Type Size
ctas_default_tablespace_80.patch text/plain 1.9 KB
ctas_default_tablespace_81.patch text/plain 1.9 KB

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