Re: BUG #16577: Segfault on altering a table located in a dropped tablespace

On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 06:37:29PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>On 2020-Sep-08, Michael Paquier wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 04:04:07PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> > Hmm.  Creating a file for partitioned table would be a completely new
>> > thing as well.  heap_create() has never created a file for partitioned
>> > tables since 10 so this could open to a new class of bugs.
>>
>> This thread has stalled for a couple of weeks now, and I would tend to
>> take the path where we'd basically revert 8725958 and ca41030.  That's
>> too late for v13 to do anything about that.  But not for 14.  Any
>> opinions?
>
>Well, naturally I oppose this idea.
>

Would it actually solve the issue? ISTM we'd still have to expect cases
with partitioned tables without storage, so presumably we'd have to do
something else ...


regards

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