On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 8:38 AM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> On 2021-12-09 08:12:14 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > > Does anyone want to object to the concept of the "pg_user_files"
> > > directory or the developer-only GUC "allow_relative_tablespaces"?
> > > There's room for discussion about names; maybe initdb shouldn't create
> > > the directory unless you ask it to, or something.
>
> Personally I'd rather put relative tablespaces into a dedicated directory or
> just into pg_tblspc, but without a symlink. Some tools need to understand
> tablespace layout etc, and having them in a directory that, by the name, will
> also contain other things seems likely to cause confusion.
Alright, let me try it that way... more soon.