Re: WAL logging of SELECT ... INTO command

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 02:37:28PM -0500, Kris Jurka wrote:
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> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
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> >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).
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> This has been fixed in CVS HEAD as part of a patch to allow additional
> options to CREATE TABLE AS.
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> 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?
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