Re: pg_dump & table space

Tom Lane wrote:

> However, this is really just cosmetic, as the dump is set up like this:
>
> SET default_tablespace = whatever;
> CREATE TABLE whichever(...);
>
> If tablespace 'whatever' doesn't exist, you'll get an error on the SET
> but the CREATE will succeed anyway.  (I guess this only works cleanly
> if the destination machine has *none* of the source's tablespaces,
> else things might get assigned to unexpected tablespaces.  But it's
> definitely possible to restore a dump without having the same
> tablespaces.)

Maybe it would be better if the dump has a RESET default_tablespace
before the SET.

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