Re: create tablespace fails silently, or succeeds improperly

Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com> writes:
> as seen below create tablespace does not throw an error or appear to
> do anything other than register the tablespace.

I suspect this behavior is partially intentional, because tablespace
creation now involves an extra level of subdirectory.  However, it's
not clear to me why CREATE TABLESPACE is still changing the permissions
on the parent directory.  Bruce, exactly what is the rationale here?
        regards, tom lane