Re: create tablespace fails silently, or succeeds improperly

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>> Robert Haas wrote:
>>> Perhaps we should fix the behavior rather than the documentation.
>
>> We can't fix the behavior because we have to allow an old cluster to
>> keep its tablespace files during a pg_upgrade.  They are given a script
>> to delete those files later, if they want.
>
> The new *layout* of the files may be forced by pg_upgrade
> considerations, but I don't think that proves much of anything about
> ownership and permissions settings --- especially not the fact that we
> are now enforcing settings that were designed for the data directory
> itself on what is effectively one level up from that.

I haven't yet been convinced we need or want to relax the rule about
the directory being empty.

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