Tom Lane wrote:
> Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> > That it's more-or-less a bulk 'ALTER TABLE' operation is why I had been
> > trying to think of a way to put it under that command. What if we had a
> > more general way to reference 'all objects in a tablespace'?
> > "tablespace.*" or "ALL:TABLESAPCE"? Are there other places which might
> > benefit from being able to take and operate on all objects in a
> > tablespace?
>
> > Of course, we handle this in 'GRANT' with 'GRANT ON ALL TABLES', so why
> > not 'ALTER TABLE ON ALL TABLES IN TABLESPACE <blah>'? that does get
> > pretty darn verbose but is at least a bit more in-line with what we have
> > done before..
>
> That's not a bad line of thought --- I doubt that verbosity is critical
> here.
Yep, that works for my purposes. Also, it seems there should be no
parse conflict because ON is already a reserved keyword ..
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