Philip Yarra <philip@utiba.com> writes:
> This is because lost+found exists. Since lost+found would be a reasonably
> common directory to find at a mount-point on Unix-like OSs*, would it make
> sense for CREATE TABLESPACE to ignore it if present?
No. There is no reason to use a volume's root directory as a
tablespace; especially so since the root directory ought to be owned
by root and so you'd have a permissions problem anyhow. Make a
subdirectory.
regards, tom lane