On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 03:34:04PM +0100, Bernd Helmle wrote: > > > --On 1. Januar 2014 23:53:46 +0100 Dimitri Fontaine > <dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr> wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >As much as I've seen people frown upon $subject, it still happens in the > >wild, and Magnus seems to agree that the current failure mode of our > >pg_basebackup tool when confronted to the situation is a bug. > > > >So here's a fix, attached. > > I've seen having tablespaces under PGDATA as a policy within several > data centres in the past. The main reasoning behind this seems that > they strictly separate platform and database administration and for > database inventory reasons. They are regularly surprised if you tell > them to not use tablespaces in such a way, since they absorbed this > practice over the years from other database systems. So +1 for > fixing this.
FYI, this setup also causes problems for pg_upgrade. There is a recent thread about that that I will reply to. The problem is that pre-9.2 servers get a mismatch between the symlink and the pg_tablespace path when they rename the old cluster. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + Everyone has their own god. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
