On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > Dave Cramer wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> > Dave Cramer <p...@fastcrypt.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.
Perhaps we should fix the behavior rather than the documentation. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
