On 2020-Sep-09, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> 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 ...
It just dawned on me that a way to fix this is to use a pg_shdepend
entry to protect the tablespace from being dropped.