Re: Should new partitions inherit their tablespace from their parent?

On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 9:43 PM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 12:50:40PM +1300, David Rowley wrote:
> > How about we record the tablespace option for the partitioned table in
> > reltablespace instead of saving it as 0.  Newly created partitions
> > which don't have a TABLESPACE mentioned in the CREATE TABLE command
> > should be created in their direct parent partitioned tables
> > tablespace.
>
> I have seen enough complains on the mailing lists regarding the way
> tablespaces are handled for partitioned tables and their partitions that
> it looks like a very good idea to make the tablespace being inherited
> automatically, by setting up reltablespace to a non-zero value even if
> a partitioned table has no physical presence.  Of course not on v11 or
> older releases, just on HEAD.  It is no good to have partitioned indexes
> and partitioned tables being handling inconsistently for such things.

+1.

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