On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 04:32:22PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Another question about this: why bother with dependencies on > tablespaces? That seems to me to be isomorphic with dependencies on > databases --- we don't need those either, because in both cases we > count on the filesystem to provide ground truth about which objects > live inside a database/tablespace.
Because it appeared ugly to me to require information from the filesystem for something that should be known internally in the database (system catalogs). No other reason that I remember. -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]alvh.no-ip.org>) "You knock on that door or the sun will be shining on places inside you that the sun doesn't usually shine" (en Death: "The High Cost of Living") ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq