Re: [PATCHES] ALTER SCHEMA ... SET TABLESPACE

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

>>> This is an extension of tablespaces, and is not required to fix a bug ... 
>>> therefore, it is a feature, and not eligible for inclusion at this point 
>>> in the development cycle ...
>> 
>> 
>> I am inclined to agree.  ALTER INDEX is an operation that will happen
>> quite often, but I don't think ALTER SCHEMA will be as frequent, and the
>> given solution doesn't address the two needs of moving the entire schema
>> or just future object creation.
>
> No, it implements something that is currently impossible without editing the 
> system catalogs - clearly an oversight!  Especially if we add a disk-based 
> change to it to avoid those drop tablespace errors.
>
> It will be 5 minutes before someone who has created a schema in 8.0 and then 
> will want to make it have a different default - there's no way they can do 
> it...

If they just created the schema, then a dump/reload would fix it ...

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