On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 12:53:02AM -0700, Mitar wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 2:32 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > I wrote a blog entry about this:
> >
> > https://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2017.html#June_2_2017
> >
> > This is certainly an area we can improve, but it would require changes
> > in several parts of the system to handle cases where the tablespace
> > disappears.
>
> Yes, I read the discussion thread you point at the end of your blog
> post. [1] This is why I posted an e-mail to the mailing list because
> some statements from that thread do not hold anymore. For example, in
> the thread it is stated:
>
> "Just pointing the tablespace to non'restart'safe storage will get you
> an installation that fails to boot after a restart, since there's a
> tree structure that is expected to survive, and when it's not found,
> postgres just fails to boot."
>
> This does not seem to be true (anymore?) based on my testing. You get
> noise in logs, but installation boots without a problem.
>
> So maybe we are closer to this than we realize?
Interesting. What happens when you references objects that were in the
tablespace? What would we want to happen?
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