Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Well, I didn't use tablespaces here so the pg_tablespaces directory is
> > empty, so I can't think of what the tablespace is.
>
> You look in the pg_tablespace catalog for the row with that OID.
>
> > Also, are we calling it pg_tablespaces (plural) rather than
> > pg_tablespace?
>
> I didn't have any particular opinion about that till just now ...
> but now I see that it's a good idea for the pg_tablespaces directory
> (the one that holds all the symlinks) to have a different name from the
> pg_tablespace catalog, especially since the latter has a couple of rows
> that do not correspond to any entries in the former.
If you want something distinct, which I understand, perhaps pg_tblspc.
> I'm not wedded to "pg_tablespaces" as the name in particular, but
> it should not be "pg_tablespace", or we'll suffer the same confusion
> over and over that you just did.
OK.
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