Re: create tablespace fails silently, or succeeds improperly

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> Excerpts from Dave Cramer's message of lun oct 18 12:23:40 -0300 2010:
>> > as seen below create tablespace does not throw an error or appear to
>> > do anything other than register the tablespace.
>> >
>> > postgres@db01:~> less /opt/pg/data/jnj_indexes/PG_VERSION
>> > 8.4
>> > postgres@db01:~> /opt/pg91/bin/psql -p 5433
>> > psql (9.0.1)
>> > Type "help" for help.
>> >
>> > postgres=# select version();
>> >                                                       version
>> >
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>> >  PostgreSQL 9.0.1 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc
>> > (GCC) 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-11), 64-bit
>> > (1 row)
>> >
>> > postgres=# create TABLESPACE jnj_indexes location '/opt/pg/data/jnj_indexes';
>> > CREATE TABLESPACE
>>
>> IIRC the reason this works is that the tablespace code now creates a
>> version-specific subdirectory inside the specified directory.  This was
>> done to help binary upgrades.
>
> Right, the directory is catalog-version named, which was done to allow
> for pg_upgrade to work for alpha/beta upgrades (pretty cool).  The case
> above happened because 8.4 still has data in that tablespace.
> pg_upgrade does supply a script to delete old data files, but it was not
> used in the case above.
>

right that's because I did not use pg_upgrade. I was manually running
create tablespace.

Dave