Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> And IIRC, we don't actually *use* spclocation anywhere.
Just for pg_dump, I think.
> How about we
> just get rid of them as independents? We could either:
> 1) Remove the column. Rely on the symlink. Create a
> pg_get_tablespace_location(oid) function, that could be used by
> pg_dumpall and friends, that just reads the symlink.
Hm, how portable is symlink-reading? If we can actually do that
without big headaches, then +1.
> 2) Forcibly update the spclocation column when we start the server to
> be whatever the symlink points to. That will at least automatically
> restore the system to being consistent.
-1, running a transaction at that level will be a giant pita.
And how would you do it at all on a hot standby slave?
regards, tom lane